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Make: Drones: Teach an Arduino to Fly

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Make: Drones will 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 information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build better drones and be better drone pilots, and incidentally it will have applications in almost any robotics project. Why Arduino? Makers know Arduinos and their accessories, they are widely available and inexpensive, and there is strong community support. Open source flight-control code is available for Arduino, and flying is the hook that makes it exciting, even magical, for so many people. 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 drone platforms. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Make Community, LLC; 1st edition (November 22, 2016)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1680451715


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 19


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #736,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #137 in Single Board Computers (Books) #201 in Robotics (Books) #371 in Robotics & Automation (Books)


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    • I recommend this book for intermiediate level electronic hobbyist
This is a very informative book for the aspiring drone enthusiast. I recommend this book for intermiediate level electronic hobbyist; Arduino, Particle and Adafruit platform users. You will need a good understanding of programming as well. This book goes in depth about the major considerations one needs to know to build a drone from the ground up..no gimicks. This book is heavy on the software in terms on how to program your drone. Github libraries and some personal programming section help the reader achieve a good understanding of how to go about programming a drone. Different types of drones projects are used as examples mainly pertaining to the three major classes of drones. The book includes different pcb schematics and lots of componets to tell you what your drone can carry; sensors, cameras, gps, gyroscope and more... Love the read. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018 by Kindle Customer
    • Five Stars
Very straight forward
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2017 by Cliente Kindle
    • Nice book for Ardunio upgrades
I have built and flown many DIY drones with various types of flight controllers including a Pixhawk F450 frame quadcopter which is based on the Arduino hardware. The "Make: Drones: Teach an Arduino to Fly" is a nicely compiled book which covers a wide variety of subjects on drone components and building with the Arduino hardware. It also comes with color photos and steps for modifying some off-the-shelve drones such as the popular Hubsan X4 and Syma X5 by using Arduino based flight controllers. We can also access details of the projects covered in this book from the author's website including the Arduino code. Although the book covers a broad variety of drones related subjects and components, they are actually very brief. As a matter of fact, the author touches very lightly on some subjects with just one or two paragraphs which are definitely not enough for an in-depth understanding of the subject matters. The coverage of the flight controllers and flight control system are also not complete (eg the popular Betaflight was not mentioned). This is understandable as the drone technology is very fast moving. The book also does not provide a lot of coverage on the radio transmitter setup and the configuration platform such as the APM and Mission Planner which are the main ones for Arduino based drones. The good news is that there are lots of reference materials on the web which we can do more in-depth research as required to complete the project listed in the book. It would be good if the author could point to some of those sites for easy reference. Another observation is that the author chose to modify some popular drones such as the Hubsan X4 and Syma X5C. This would require quite a bit of modification and including cutting out the existing plastic molds and such. However, there are also alternatives for cleaner builds such as buying off-the shelve frames or printing popular 3D drones frames from Thingiverse. Or they could also consider using the Blade Inductrix frame which made the Tiny Whoop so popular these days. Overall, I like this book as this would give the readers some ideas on building their own Arduino based drones. However, I would expect the readers to do more researches and in-depth studying from the web in order to complete these projects successfully. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016 by Love Peace
    • Everything You Need to Know to Design Your Own Drone
DRONES: TEACH AN ARDUINO TO FLY is one of the best "Make" books ever! It contains complete instructions for building three different drones--small, medium, and large (large enough to require FAA registration). The drones are built from parts kits available online, supplemented with flight controllers (Hubsan X4Wii; Syma X5 with Arduino Teensy 3.2; S500 plus Pixhawk Lite controller and ArduCopter flight control software). The book explains in detail how drones fly, and includes an early chapter on testing a small drone to understand how changed batteries and propellers can affect performance. Later chapters deal with how changes in the flight controller affect performance, and with how a modular controller can further enhance performance. The book is profusely illustrated with circuit diagrams, important stages of actual drone construction showing wired connections, drone parts, key programming software screenshots, diagrams of aerodynamics principles, flowcharts, and more. The included code can be used in the builder's programs and documentation without the publisher's permission (unless the builder wants to reproduce significant amounts of the code for commercial purposes). ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2016 by 🌺 Lynne E.
    • Great book - light on code explanation
Checked out this book from the library. It's a great book but very concise when it comes to source code explanations. The book could easily have been twice as long with much more in depth discussions and dissections of the code. As it is, the reader is left to unravel and understand the code details himself. Without an intermediate understanding of the C programming language this could be a very daunting task for some. Fortunately I have this understanding of programming and the C language. I plan to start examining the code with the Visible Drone project since most of this code is written by the author himself and is much less complex and lengthy then the open source code in the other two projects. Only if and when I thoroughly understand the code will I attempt to build this project. Again a well-produced book! Thank you David McGriffy for taking the time to write this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2017 by Anita R McQueary
    • Very very cool
This is a really cool book. I am a bit overwhelmed by all the information. I have been using all kinds of Arduino boards and shields at work as very low-cost test peripherals (CAN BUS and SPI bus mostly) and I would love an excuse to build a drone. I have not taken the plunge and ordered an S500 frame kit to build a drone as outlined in this book but it is extremely tempting. One of the the things I like about Arduino is that the parts are so cheap I just order them for later consumption- it looks like the most expensive S500 kit is $170 ( that's for a complete combo kit ) which is the upper range of an impulse buy for me. Need to do some more study. Anyway, I am very impressed by this book and recommend it even though like I say I haven't taken the plunge to actually build and launch an Arduino drone quite yet. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2017 by Thomas B. Gross

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