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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino
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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

by Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
212 pages
4h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Assembling the frame

The assembly of the drone frame requires a lot of patience and you are once again advised to follow the instruction manual when doing it for the first time. For reference, in this book, we will assemble a drone frame from HobbyKing (S500). Inside the box, you will get the items displayed in the following picture:

These items are listed here:

  • Four frame arms (two blue and two black, if you buy the blue color)
  • Four leg plates
  • Two rods for the base mount
  • One top plate
  • One bottom plate for mounting the power lines
  • And a lot of screws

Firstly, see the following figure and connect the parts as shown here:

Use a proper screwdriver ...

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ISBN: 9781788477512