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DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Design, build, and pilot custom drones―no prior experience necessary!This fun guide shows, step-by-step, how to construct powerful drones from inexpensive parts, add personalized features, and become a full-fledged pilot. DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones not only covers safety, mechanics, drone design, and assembly, but also teaches the basics of Aerospace Engineering. You will discover how to add video transmitters, GPS, first-person view, and virtual reality goggles to your creations. The book walks you through the FAA licensing process and takes a look at advanced concepts, such as artificial intelligence and autonomous flight.• Learn about aircraft parts, control mechanics, and safety practices • Become an expert pilot―even handle flips and high-speed maneuvers • Pick the perfect parts for your high-performance drone • Find out how to solder and start assembling your drone • Program the aircraft, calibrate the motors, and start flying! • Add LED lights, GoPro mounts, and self-balancing camera gimbals • Explore the world of first-person-view (FPV) drones and high-speed racing • See how artificial intelligence can be put to use in the drone industry Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill TAB


Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 25, 2016


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1259861465


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 68


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.39 x 10.8 inches


Part of series ‏ : ‎ Evil Genius


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    • Perfect Balance: Drone Flight Theory and Build Practicality
Format: Paperback
"DIY Drones for the Evil Genius" (by Ian Cinnamon, Romi Kadri and Fitz Tepper) provides a very effective overview to move from the many available toy drones to the more serious hobbyist level. The book is well organized, allowing the reader to dive into the theory as deep as desired or pick and choose specific subjects of interest to rapidly meet their needs. For me, I was admittedly after more of the "get your hands dirty" portions of the book to get right in and start building my own drone after "outgrowing" my more "toy" drone. But for those more interested in taking a "theorist" approach to the flight of drones, the book also provides aerodynamics of aviation flight and supporting physics, all very useful depending on how much you thirst for theory vs. just the practical aspects. Regardless of which extreme you fall into, or a balance of both, the book provides the information in a well written, easy to understand document, along with great illustrations and organization. In conclusion, the reader can immerse themselves in as much or little of the theory needed to build their own drone, or more likely, come back to the theory later on as building and flying the drone progresses and the interest level for the theory increases. Several key considerations make this book a great purchase. First, its very well priced, and provides ever so important specific drone first class component sourcing references and vendors to build a top notch drone, and at attractive pricing. One of my concerns going into this purchase questioned if the supplier references would be limited to purchasing from authors of the book, which refreshingly was NOT the case. In fact, the references provided in the book take you to various Amazon vendors, many of them "Prime" in fact, selling the specific components and at very reasonable and competitively priced. For me, this is very important keeping the presentation/learning materials very separate from the purchasing side of the components so the book does what its supposed to do, provide objective guidelines and references. Finally, and something one does not often see when purchasing "how to" books is the outgoing support and availability of the primary author, Ian Cinnamon. I had several questions regarding following my initial reading of the book. A link is provided to reach out to Mr. Cinnamon, which I honestly did not expect any kind of effective or timely responses. To my surprise, he responded within minutes of my first inquiry, answering all questions with a willingness to continue helping me as needed which he has. So the author takes a wonderful "hands-on" approach through his timely availability. I look forward to progressing towards the start of building my first drone which is anticipated shortly, having confidence that the book will provide such a broad amount of information, but most important, knowing that the author openly is making himself availble via email to help, making this home-built drone nothing short of a success. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017 by Jimmy B
    • If you like drones check this out
Format: Paperback
Love building drones this is a good introduction for diy and basics of aviation. Try it out yourself
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2026 by Ryan
    • A good introductory book on drone building.
Format: Paperback
This is good book and there were no issues with delivery. The book has good section on theory of flight. Drone building is described in detail, hopefully I can follow it through. I reduced by one star for several issues: 1. Continuous referral to book's web site for components list instead of teaching reader to select components on their own. 2. Electronics descriptions are rather sketchy, some info on using GPS with flight computer and RC protocols (SBus, etc.) would be useful. 3. Drone LiPo batteries are fire hazard. It would be nice to read how to store them safely. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017 by Anton B.
    • simple enough for beginners, or seasoned professional
Format: Paperback
as a beginner, this was just perfect excellent beginner book, explains to where you can actually understand it
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2026 by Mike Peek
    • Excellent book not just on building drones but understanding how they fly
Format: Paperback
When I ordered this book I thought it would be like the other evil genius books, where you get some interesting projects and learn some new concepts. I was shocked and thrilled that the first 30 pages are about how flight works. This book goes into such interesting detail for each of the projects. I have read the book, and now I am working on getting the parts to actually start building. I hope they come out with a second book on programming these drones, as I think that would be a big hit, as children love drones and if you can quickly build one and then they can look at programming it, that may attract more people. But, considering the topic, this book is incredible, and they are very thorough, as they also talk about how to get a drone license from the FAA, so your hobby won't land you in jail. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016 by Black family
    • Great book and author is responsive
Format: Paperback
I got this book and the parts needed to build a drone; great Christmas gift for my husband. Diydronebook.com had the links for what we needed and author Ian responded within a day when one of the links didn’t work. (If you are a novice, don’t waste your time trying to figure out which flight controller you need. Also, use amazon prime gift option in case you choose wrong.). You really should have some experience working with wiring. Husband needed to get easy disconnecters (from autozone) for the ECM and motors, and then use shrink wrap to make sure positive and negative stayed separate. Also had to get a XT60 male connector for the battery we chose. And the frame we chose did not include the little 3mm x 10mm screws to connect the motor to the frame. Finally, the battery charger did not come with an outlet plug so we had to find one that meets the specs. So, you see, a great guide but be prepared to problem solve. It’s alot of effort but much better to spend about $300 instead of over $2000 for an already built drone! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020 by Savvy Buyer
    • Still a genius, not that evil.
Format: Paperback
Good book to lay out some clarity of those considering getting into drones, or those of us with questions. Interesting read.
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019 by skwerlkiller
    • Waste
Format: Kindle
I bought this book with the hope of clearing up misunderstandings concerning several aspects of building a copter. The first part of the book goes into great detail about basics of flying. That made me feel that the remaining part of the book would do the same with the drone stuff itself. However, that's not the case. 1. The author doesn`t introduce you the algorithm of choosing parts for your DIY drone. Instead, he feeds you with specific solutions such as obsolete CCD3D flight controller. 2. Same goes for fine-tuning of your aircraft. You won`t find any information regarding an actual understanding of the process. Instead of this you get "plug this, click here, set that" instructions working only for the specific solutions the author have chosen for the example. The basics of choosing right motos-props-frame-battery combination are simply missing. The author doesn't condescend to explain how to choose the right size of the props, the kV of the motors and battery capacity for given payload. And without the understanding of that, you won`t build any drone that actually can fly! 3. The worst part is accessories. I got a feeling that the author simply knows nothing about connecting a gimbal and FPV camera. You won't find any connection diagrams and algorithms for connecting gimbal to your receiver, or your vTX to FPV camera(just mounting). There is no explanation of how to control your gimbal from the transmitter, the purpose of using a current converter and so on. Why spend 40 pages of the book to explain how airplanes and helicopters fly and then just gloss over the most crucial part? This is an absolute waste of time. You'd better off check some famous YT-channels or read through Oscar Liang FPV blog to find out how to build, tune and fly your UAV. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018 by Serge

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