Chapter
How can we differentiate between drones
Types of motors used for drones
Several types of speed controllers
Radio transmitter and receiver
Battery adapters/chargers
Some modules to make the drone smarter
Chapter 2: Assembling Your Drone
Connecting the RC receiver and transmitter
Binding transmitter to the receiver
Know the aerodynamics needed for flying a drone
Rising or climbing or taking off
Dropping or descent or falling
Saving your drone from crashing
Check things before flying
Check the security protocols for flying a drone outside
Chapter 3: Preparing Your Drone for Flying
Connecting the ESP8266 to Arduino
Downloading and installing APM Planner or Mission Planner
Configuring the quadcopter
Chapter 4: Building a Follow Me Drone
What is a Follow Me drone?
Making a Follow Me drone using ArduPilot
Using a smartphone to enable the Follow Me feature of ArduPilot
Using the Tower application
Building an Arduino-based Follow Me drone
GPS Tracker using ESP8266
Chapter 5: Building a Mission Control Drone
Using drones and delivery man
Some other tweaks with the Flight Plan screen
Communicating with the drone via the ESP8266
Chapter 6: Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos
Assembling the photography drone
Configuring the camera with the ArduPilot
Tips for better quality videos
Controlling the camera gimbal using ESP8266
Chapter 7: Building Prototype Drones – Gliding Drones
Incident and decalage angle
Three axis motion (roll, pitch, and yaw)
Aspect ratio and glide ratio
Glide or dive and descent, gliding angle
Let's build our own glider drone
Chapter 8: Building Prototype Drones – Racing Drones
Assembling the racing drone
Connecting the FPV camera
Avoiding obstacles using ESP8266
Chapter 9: Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone
Be careful about the battery
Before and after flight safety
Respect the law and privacy
Troubleshooting your drone
My drone tries to flip or flip when I turn it on
My motors spin but the drone does not fly or take off
The drone moves in any direction
When I pitch or roll, the drone yaws
Battery life is too short
Diagnosing problems using logs
Radio control calibration problem
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