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Make: Drones: Teach an Arduino to Fly Paperback – 21 October 2016

by David Mcgriffy (Author)

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Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build better drones and be better drone pilots, and incidentally it will have applications in almost any robotics project. Why Arduino? Makers know Arduinos and their accessories, they are widely available and inexpensive, and there is strong community support. Open source flight-control code is available for Arduino, and flying is the hook that makes it exciting, even magical, for so many people. Arduino is not only a powerful board in its own right, but it's used as the controller of most inexpensive 3d printers, many desktop CNCs, and the majority of open source drone platforms.

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Language : English
Paperback : 222 pages
ISBN-10 : 1680451715
ISBN-13 : 978-1680451719

Best Sellers Rank: 1,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1 in Experiments, Instruments & Measurements
- 1 in Computer Hardware
- 1 in Aviation References

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About the Author

David McGriffy has been a programmer since the earliest days of the personal computer. He has piloted both radio-controlled and human-carrying aircraft, including gliders of both sorts. He worked on GPS systems before they had even finished launching all the satellites. He's written embedded systems code for top computer companies and for fun. He has traveled the world to do failure-mode analyses on the control systems of offshore oil rigs and is an inventor on a patent for a vibration analysis system. He is an expert on website performance and has been published by IEEE on the subject. David runs an audio software company, VVAudio, which produces plugins for surround sound and virtual reality. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin.

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I recommend this book for intermiediate level electronic hobbyist

11 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a very informative book for the aspiring drone enthusiast. I recommend this book for intermiediate level electronic hobbyist; Arduino, Particle and Adafruit platform users. You will need a good understanding of programming as well.

This book goes in depth about the major considerations one needs to know to build a drone from the ground up..no gimicks. This book is heavy on the software in terms on how to program your drone. Github libraries and some personal programming section help the reader achieve a good understanding of how to go about programming a drone. Different types of drones projects are used as examples mainly pertaining to the three major classes of drones.

The book includes different pcb schematics and lots of componets to tell you what your drone can carry; sensors, cameras, gps, gyroscope and more...

Love the read.

3 people found this helpful

Crazy Joe

This book was a disappointment to me

19 January 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book was a disappointment to me. The name of the book "Make: Drones: Teach an Arduino to Fly" implies to me that it would instruct me to "teach" or code an Arduino board to fly as part of a drone. Instead this book is all about hardware with very few examples of coding. Maybe break apart the MultiWii program into digestible pieces and explain how each piece works. Only then you will this book "fly" with me.

18 people found this helpful

Cliente Kindle

Five Stars

14 August 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Very straight forward

AmandaGal

Pretty Good Information About Drones: Not What I Expected

14 January 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book was different than I expected. I expected a simple step-by-step make of a drone, like in an issue of Make. This goes a little deeper. It has quite a bit of the theory surrounding the control system.

I was a little disappointed that I didn't see a 3d printed drone build (that's what I was expecting). The author modifies a few lower priced drones and does a make from a kit. I own a Syma X5C but the mod requires destroying it, more or less, so I really don't want to try that. I would rather have had a 3d printed option. They also modify a Husban X4, which I don't own.

The main project is from an s500 kit. The drone you build with that kit seems pretty impressive, and I might try it at some point.

I do think if you are interested in drones, the book is useful because it does delve into controller programming and how a drone flies and receives signals, which I thought was interesting even without the build. The diagrams for the circuit boards and charts and graphs are excellent. The build seems pretty straightforward. I'll probably come back to the build, but I don't really feel like investing in the kit (which seems to be available on Ebay, but I can't find it anywhere else at the moment: that could change). The kit itself is around $40.

I did a quick calculation of the cost it would take to build the drone following their instructions and I came up with $250-300 (again, quick calculation. I haven't built it myself. I don't have that kind of money right now to invest in a project). I'll probably come back to it because I would like to hook my GoPro up to a Drone.

9 people found this helpful

Anita R McQueary

Great book - light on code explanation

12 September 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

Checked out this book from the library. It's a great book but very concise when it comes to source code explanations. The book could easily have been twice as long with much more in depth discussions and dissections of the code. As it is, the reader is left to unravel and understand the code details himself. Without an intermediate understanding of the C programming language this could be a very daunting task for some.

Fortunately I have this understanding of programming and the C language. I plan to start examining the code with the Visible Drone project since most of this code is written by the author himself and is much less complex and lengthy then the open source code in the other two projects. Only if and when I thoroughly understand the code will I attempt to build this project.

Again a well-produced book! Thank you David McGriffy for taking the time to write this book.

2 people found this helpful

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