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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Design, build, and fly your personal quadcopter using market electronics to capture incredible photographs and record phenomenal videos
About This Book
- Grasp the knowledge required to assemble your drone with light and cost effective materials
- Enlighten your understanding about the flight by performing step-by-step pre-flight adjustments and acquiring the instructions for a safe flight
- Get the best tips to deal with performance issues related to your quadcopter
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for hobbyists who are looking forward to fulfill their dream of flying a quadcopter clearly made by them. Some basic experience in electronic circuits and aerial vehicles will make it easier for you, however it isn't mandatory.
What You Will Learn
- Review and choose the most suitable material for the build
- Set up and calibrate all of your electronic parts
- Control and fly your quadcopter taking into account the weather conditions
- Maintain your vehicle as much as possible and repair it whenever required
- Engineer the structure of your vehicle
- Develop a flight controller with its basic principles
- Eliminate possible malfunctions in the future
- Repair your drone if it crashes or faces any damage
In Detail
Quadcopters, also known as quadrotors, are gaining more and more popularity in today's world. With the help of these devices, anyone can have an “eye in the sky” and can monitor any place at any time. You can capture photographs and once a while and perform automated tasks. In this book, you will be informed about all the basic modules and electronics needed to fly a simple quadcopter. You'll delve deep to create a fully-functional quadcopter quickly with the help of Arduino boards. Through this book, you'll develop the skills needed to build a DIY drone that can capture pictures and record videos.
Style and approach
This is an easy-to-follow guide with pictorial depictions and technical descriptions to assemble your vehicle.
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Building a Quadcopter with Arduino
Building a Quadcopter with Arduino
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First published: December 2015
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Credits
Author
Vasilis Tzivaras
Reviewer
Joseph Monti
Commissioning Editor
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Acquisition Editors
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Technical Editor
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About the Author
Vasilis Tzivaras is a software developer and hardware engineer who lives in Ioannina, Greece. He is currently an undergraduate student of the Department of computer science and Engineering at Ioannina. Alongside his studies, he is working on many projects relevant to robotics, such as drones, home automation, and smart home systems using Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. Furthermore, he is enthusiastic about clean energy solutions and cultural innovation ideas.
He has worked for the University Hospital of Ioannina as an assistant for various computer issues, and he has been part of the support team of his CSE department for over a year. He has participated in IEEE UOI Student Branch and other big organizations, such as FOSSCOMM, with personal presentations for website designing, programming, Linux systems, and drones.
As a member of IEEE University of Ioannina Student Branch, he has proposed many projects and solutions to automate homes and many other life problems by reducing the time of everyday routines. In addition to this, he has come up with ideas to entertain kids with funny and magical projects using Arduino-like hardware and open source software. Many of the projects can be found at his GitHub account under the name of BillyTziv.
Apart from this book, he has also worked on another book Programming in C, which is not yet published. In addition to this, he has written for blogs, forums, guides, and small chapters, explaining and sharing his knowledge of computers, networks, and programming.
Firstly, I would like to thank my entire family and my close friends, Joe Polenakis, Marios Balamatsias, and Kostis Karantias for supporting me every single day. Secondly, I could do nothing without Vasilis Megas who stood by me from the first day, assisting me while building my first drone and giving me instructions about safe flights. Furthermore, I would like to thank my advisor, Kostas Vlaxos, for helping me out with my research about drones. Lastly, everyone else who said that I could not do this; they set me a challenge, which I finally accepted.
About the Reviewer
Joseph Monti is a software engineer who has worked in the field of software engineering for more than 12 years. His programming languages of choice are Scala and Python. He is currently the director of software engineering at ZenoRadio, which combines telephony and internet-based radio to connect listeners to broadcasters. His range of expertise includes web services, data processing systems, ad serving technology, and robotics. Whether it is an algorithm, data model, or software architecture, he relishes a challenge.
From an early age, Joseph's passion for technology motivated him to build and race radio controlled cars and program his calculator to do his homework. His interests in both hardware and software lead him to the field of robotics, and more recently, quadcopters, AI, and machine learning. He is currently working on a quadcopter as a prototype platform, controlled by Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. While he enjoys flying quadcopters, this project is intended for the challenge of overcoming the complexities of flights and taking advantage of the freedom it allows. His website and blog can be found at http://joemonti.org/.
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Preface
Quadcopters have made an unexpected comeback from 1907, where all the research about multicopters paused due to stability issues. Nowadays, this kind of aerial vehicle is the perfect solution for many applications. If you want to capture a photo or record a video, transfer low-weight payload quickly and securely, or join races with other hobbyists, then you will have to buy one or even create one on your own.
As an author, I have tried to keep the simplicity of the quadcopter but also give plenty of instructions on how you can easily create one for your own application. As kids, we always wanted something that could fly and that we could play around with. Through this book, this dream can come true.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Quadcopters, provides information on various categories of drones, and you will be able to understand why a quadcopter is stable and can hover. Furthermore, some possible applications will be mentioned as well.
Chapter 2, Hardware Overview, analyzes every part of the quadcopter and gives some basic instructions about the usage of each component.
Chapter 3, Creating a Frame, analyzes some possible materials and the shapes and purposes of different frames, since each component will be mounted on a frame. Some frames are designed for stability purposes and photography, whereas others are used for quadcopter races.
Chapter 4, Soldering the Electronics, covers how to solder wires and create connections between different parts, as some of the electronics require further modifications as per individual requirements.
Chapter 5, Electronics Installation, contains some tips for better stability even though installing the electronics is a piece of cake. Notice that it's quite easy to damage something and have a problem later.
Chapter 6, Flight Controller Setup, covers how to set up ArduPilot, which is an open source and easy flight controller. A flight controller is the core component of your quadcopter. It contains all the software that is crucial for stability. Setting up a controller may be easy or very hard.
Chapter 7, Flight Instructions, helps you ask some basic questions and tries to make you think like a professional pilot. Your quadcopter is ready but flying is not so easy. There are many factors that you should think of before going out there and powering up your quadcopter; where you will fly, what will happen if something goes wrong, how much time you have, and so on. All these queries should be answered before flying.
Chapter 8, Cameras and Extra Functions, covers vibration issues and mechanisms that you can use or build on your own. Apart from all the basic components, there are more advanced ones that you can easily add to your quadcopter, depending on the purpose of the flight. FPV is a great way to have eyes in the sky and LEDs are necessary for night flights.
Chapter 9, Repair and Maintenance, covers how to maintain your vehicle, how to protect it from wear, and why this is crucial for safe flights. Even professionals face a crash. This is something that you will unfortunately experience, but the goal here is to estimate the damage and repair your quadcopter as fast as you can.
What you need for this book
This book is intended for hobbyists who are looking forward to fulfilling their dream of flying a quadcopter made by them. Some basic experience in electronic circuits and aerial vehicles will make it easier for you; however, there is nothing too complicated or difficult to do if you follow all the instructions sequentially.
