Make: drones : teach an Arduino to fly

Summary: Make three types of drones in this how-to book that covers flight control systems, multirotor aerodynamics, circuit board design with modular components, installation of radio, telemetry, and GPS, and fine-tuning for flight stabilization.

Item details

ISBN: 9781680451719
ISBN: 1680451715
Physical Description: print
xii, 207 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Maker Media, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What makes a drone possible -- Popular drone control systems -- Drone activities -- Improve the Hubsan X4 -- Build the X4Wii -- The visible drone -- Basic I/O code -- Multirotor aerodynamics -- IMU/AHRS -- Mode and mix -- PIDs -- Circuit board and motor controllers -- Construction and tuning -- A bigger frame -- Install the power system -- Brushless motors and their ESCs -- Install the flight controller and radios -- GPS -- Magnetometer -- Flying the S500 -- Optical flow, sonar, and lidar -- Vibration -- Failure modes and fault tolerance -- Interfaces -- The future.