July 2015
Beginner
288 pages
6h 41m
English
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Chapter 8
Controlling Your Drone
In This Chapter
Understanding how drones are piloted
Controlling your drone
Auto-piloting your drone
Getting your drone airborne and flying it with great skill requires more than just a deft hand, it requires high technology! The greatest technology innovation to drive the growth of the modern drone market is smartphones. Modern smartphones contain all of the advanced communication protocols that are necessary for drone flight. The Apple iPhone, and numerous Android devices, has a cellular radio which utilizes several long-range and short ranges frequencies. The iPhone also has wireless internet capabilities with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and global positioning service (GPS). Your iPhone also contains advanced sensors like temperature gauges, gyroscopes that determine the orientation of the phone, accelerometers that detect motion of the phone and can even detect acceleration. The smartphone industry not only drove the development and improvement of these technologies but also the miniaturization of these technologies.
Small and powerful are the words that should be used to describe the technology needed to get your drone into the sky. In this chapter, you ...