Building Your Own Drones: A Beginners' Guide to Drones, UAVs, and ROVs

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Absolutely no experience needed! Build your drone, step-by-step, with this full-color, hands-on guide! You’ve heard about drones. You’ve seen drones. Now, build your own—it’s a lot easier than you think! Drones are the newest frontier for the DIY/maker community, and you don’t need to be a technical expert to build one. John Baichtal, the #1 author of hardware hacking books for beginners, will teach you all the skills you need. First, Baichtal shows you the amazing drones others have built. Then, he walks you through several complete projects: quadcopters, UAVs, ROVs, and more. Not ready to start from scratch? No problem: Baichtal helps you choose from today’s best new kits. Hundreds of full-color step-by-step photos teach you every step, every skill. When you’re ready for more advanced concepts, Baichtal explains them in plain English. Discover what drones are and why they’re so exciting Explore today’s most imaginative projects, from 3D-printed mini quadcopters to floating robot armies Compare kits, from $200 up: Parallax ELEV-8, DJI Phantom 2 Vision+, OpenROV, Actobotics Nomad, Brooklyn Aerodrome Flack, and more Create your own practical Drone Builder’s Workbench Build complete rocket, blimp, waterborne, and automotive drones Construct both fully autonomous and radio-controlled drones Choose and assemble your chassis (airframe), motor, props, flight control, power system, accessories, and software Integrate Arduino to make radio-controlled drones operate autonomously Teach a drone to navigate via RFID tags Learn all the basic electronics and programming you’ll need Review: Great little book if you are interested in how to ... - Great little book if you are interested in how to build your own drone. It has clear pictures and is written clearly for even a newbie to understand. The projects are a bit involved but that is what makes books like this fun. You can build a checklist of parts and work on getting everything you need and build it slowly over time as you read through the book. Review: Good reference if you are new to the subject and ... - This is a comprenhensive collection of ideas about the art of drones. Good reference if you are new to the subject and want a quick dive in. I enjoyed readig and my kids also enjoy pictures, which are very useful to understand the topic.