This book has a subtitle of Teach an Arduino to Fly, and author David McGriffy aims to help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The book shows Makers how to build better drones and be better drone pilots. As a side benefit it the techniques will have applications in almost any robotics project.

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Arduino is not only a powerful board in its own right, but it's used as the controller of most inexpensive 3d printers, many desktop CNCs, and the majority of open source drones. In this book, David McGriffy shows how to take existing drones and extend them to create your own custom models.

Author: David McGriffy
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc
Date: October 2016
Pages: 222
ISBN: 978-1680451719
Print: 1680451715
Kindle: B01MAWF94M
Audience: Arduino programmers
Level: Intermediate
Category: Hardware platforms

• Work with small drones using the Hubsan X4C
• Build a new small drone
• Construct a medium sized drone based on the Syma X5
• Create a large drone based on the S500 frame kit
• What will drones offer in the future?

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