In Chapter 4, Building a Follow Me Drone, we learned how we can build a Follow Me-type drone by using a smartphone or an external USB dongle. In this chapter, we will build or modify an existing drone to do something on its own. Actually, not on its own, but by our commands. Before going any further, let's discuss mission control drones.
Mission control drones are one of the common and most useful drones these days. We have seen how Amazon ships its products by such drones. They ship the packages and return to the base. The other types of mission control drones do surveys. They fly in an area and collect data. In this chapter, we will build such a kind of drone. We can do this with ArduPilot. So, let's get ...
