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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

4.1 (8)
By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

With the use of drones, DIY projects have taken off. Programmers are rapidly moving from traditional application programming to developing exciting multi-utility projects. This book will teach you to build industry-level drones with Arduino and ESP8266 and their modified versions of hardware. With this book, you will explore techniques for leveraging the tiny WiFi chip to enhance your drone and control it over a mobile phone. This book will start with teaching you how to solve problems while building your own WiFi controlled Arduino based drone. You will also learn how to build a Quadcopter and a mission critical drone. Moving on you will learn how to build a prototype drone that will be given a mission to complete which it will do it itself. You will also learn to build various exciting projects such as gliding and racing drones. By the end of this book you will learn how to maintain and troubleshoot your drone. By the end of this book, you will have learned to build drones using ESP8266 and Arduino and leverage their functionalities to the fullest.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

What is ESP8266?


Basically, an ESP8266 is a Wi-Fi module. It has the capability for 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, which is 802.11 b/g/n. It supports WPA and WPA2. It is a system-on chip integrated with a 32-bit processor which runs 80 MHz (it can also be overclocked to 160 MHz). It has 64 KB of RAM and a 64 KB boot ROM. The data RAM of ESP8266 is 96 KB. It is cheap, small, and powerful. That's why everyone uses it for different kinds of projects.

You can use an ESP8266 almost everywhere you need to make IoT wireless and smart. The following image is an ESP8266 with its pin out:

The standard ESP8266 has eight pins, as shown in the previous diagram. Let's look at their details:

  • Pin: Function
  • RX: It receives data
  • VCC: Power pin (usually 3.3V maximum)
  • GPIO 0: General purpose input output pin 0
  • RESET: It is a reset pin
  • CH_PD: Chip power down pin
  • GPIO 2: General purpose input output pin 2
  • TX: It transmits data
  • GND: Ground pin

Connecting the ESP8266 to Arduino

Let's connect our ESP8266 to an Arduino board. You can use any...

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