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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

You're reading from Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino Build exciting drones by leveraging the capabilities of Arduino and ESP8266

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788477512

Length 212 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Things to Know Before You Build a Drone FREE CHAPTER

2. Assembling Your Drone

3. Preparing Your Drone for Flying

4. Building a Follow Me Drone

5. Building a Mission Control Drone

6. Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos

7. Building Prototype Drones – Gliding Drones

8. Building Prototype Drones – Racing Drones

9. Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone

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Index

Configuring the quadcopter

Let's configure our quadcopter. Before going any further with the configuration, remove all the propellers of your drone. It can be dangerous if the propellers are connected. Connect the USB cable to the ArduPilot and connect it to your computer. Open APM Planner and go to the Initial Setup tab. Remember, you need to disconnect the connection before going to the Initial Setup tab or you might see some errors (especially when installing new firmware). You will see the options, as shown the following screenshot:

Firstly, we are going to install the firmware, which is the most important work for configuring the ArduPilot:

Disconnect the connection between the ArduPilot and your computer by clicking the Disconnect button but keep the USB cable connected.
Click on Install Firmware from the left-hand side. You will be shown several types of drones.
Since we are configuring a quadcopter, select the quadcopter. In my case, it is ArduCopter 3.2.1. The version may vary depending...

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Authors (1)

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha is a data scientist, and currently working at Meta. He has two bachelor's degrees, one in Physics, another in Computer Science and a Master's in Data Science. He is based in London, England, and has interests in data science and IoTs. While Syed is not busy with his jobs, he uses his time to write something about new technologies. His recent publications include Building Smart Drones With ESP8266 and Arduino, Introduction to Rust Programming, Learning C for Arduino, and JavaScript Projects for Kids.

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