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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By : Omar Faruk Towaha
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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

4.1 (8)
By: Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

With the use of drones, DIY projects have taken off. Programmers are rapidly moving from traditional application programming to developing exciting multi-utility projects. This book will teach you to build industry-level drones with Arduino and ESP8266 and their modified versions of hardware. With this book, you will explore techniques for leveraging the tiny WiFi chip to enhance your drone and control it over a mobile phone. This book will start with teaching you how to solve problems while building your own WiFi controlled Arduino based drone. You will also learn how to build a Quadcopter and a mission critical drone. Moving on you will learn how to build a prototype drone that will be given a mission to complete which it will do it itself. You will also learn to build various exciting projects such as gliding and racing drones. By the end of this book you will learn how to maintain and troubleshoot your drone. By the end of this book, you will have learned to build drones using ESP8266 and Arduino and leverage their functionalities to the fullest.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Building an Arduino-based Follow Me drone

For this section, you will need the following things:

  • Motors
  • ESCs
  • Battery
  • Propellers
  • Radio-controller
  • Arduino Nano
  • HC-05 Bluetooth module
  • GPS
  • MPU6050 or GY-86 gyroscope.
  • Some wires

Connections are simple:

  1. You need to connect the motors to the ESCs, and ESCs to the battery. You can use a four-way connector (power distribution board) for this, like in the following diagram:
  1. Now, connect the radio to the Arduino Nano with the following pin configuration:
Arduino pin

Radio pin

D3

CH1

D5

CH2

D2

CH3

D4

CH4

D12

CH5

D6

CH6

  1. Now, connect the Gyroscope to the Arduino Nano with the following configuration:

Arduino pin

Gyroscope pin

5V

5V

GND

GND

A4

SDA

A5

SCL

  1. You are left with the four wires of the ESC signals; let's connect them to the Arduino Nano now...

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