Building Your Own Drones: A Beginner’s Guide to Drones, UAVs, and ROVs

7. Blimp Drone Project

In this chapter, you’ll check out radio control (RC) technology, which lets you remotely operate model vehicles using a wireless handheld controller. After that, you’ll build a blimp drone that uses an RC setup to fly around (see Figure 7.1). Finally, I’ll show you how to make the blimp run autonomously using an Arduino as the brains.

FIGURE 7.1 You’ll build a blimp drone in this chapter.

Radio Control

Typical RC setups include three major control components: a transmitter, a receiver, and a speed controller for each motor. Let’s check out each one.

Transmitters

RC setups consist of a handheld controller (shown in ...