Chapter 17. Install the Flight Controller and Radios
We’ve put in the muscle. Now it’s time to add the brains (and, I suppose, the eyes, ears, and mouth, to stretch the analogy a bit). More seriously, we are going to mount a Pixhawk Lite flight controller, a GPS receiver, the RC receiver, and the telemetry radio, then wire them all up. Oh, and a safety button—another new feature very appropriate to a larger, more powerful drone. Figure 17-1 shows these components wired together, but not installed.
Figure 17-1. The central Pixhawk Lite controller with three radios and a power module
I got all of these components, except for the RC radio, in a ...
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