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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino
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As we have been using ArduPilot as the control board of our drone, we need to use the APM Planner software for configuring our drone. Let's download APM Planner from here: http://firmware.ardupilot.org/, and download AMP Planner 2.0 or Mission Planner:
After successful installation, open the APM Planner or Mission Planner. The interface will look like this:
At the top left, you can see the following six menus:
The option names are self-explanatory. At the top right, you can see a Connect
button. Before the Connect
button, you can find the MAV ID
option, which allows you to select the right port for your ArduPilot connected to your computer by USB or by telemetry. In Windows, you can select Auto
mode to find out the perfect port number, if you are not sure which is the COM port number. But on OSX, you need to figure out the perfect port.
For the first time, we need to connect...