Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Leverage the WiFi chip to build exciting Quadcopters

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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
February 2018

Leverage the WiFi chip to build exciting Quadcopters

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Book Details

ISBN 139781788477512

Paperback331 pages

Book Description

With the rise of drone utility, the rise of DIY projects has significantly increased. Programmers are rapidly moving from traditional application programming to developing exciting multi-utility projects. This books sole motto is to teach you to build industry level drones with Arduino and ESP8266.

With this book, you will explore techniques on leveraging the tiny Wifi chip to enhance your drone. It will teach you to enhance your drone in various ways like controlling it over a mobile phone, building a follow me prototype, developing a mission critical drone, and so on. Finally, you will be well versed in leveraging Arduino and ESP8266 in creating exciting drones along with extending its features.

By the end of this book, you will learn how to build drones using ESP8266 and Arduino and leverage its functionalities to the fullest.

What You Will Learn

Includes a number of projects that utilize different capabilities of ESP8266 and Arduino, while interfacing with external hardware
Covers electrical engineering and programming concepts, interfacing with the world through analog and digital sensors, communicating with a computer and other devices, and internet connectivity
Control and fly your quadcopter taking into account the weather conditions
Build a drone which can follow the user wherever he goes
Build a mission control drone and learn how to effectively use it.
Maintain your vehicle as much as possible and repair it whenever required

Authors

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha has degrees in Physics and Computer Science and Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. He is currently working as the Chief Technology Officer at an IT company in his city while working remotely with a Chinese company as a hardware designer. He has a number of publications from different publications. His recent publications include Learning C for Arduino, JavaScript Projects for Kids, Fundamentals of Ruby, Easy Circuits for Kids, How you Should Design Algorithms, and so on.

Previously Syed worked a number of companies as either software engineer or technical advisor. He volunteers Mozilla as a Reps. Syed has proved his experience in various fields such as Mobile Application Developments with Java, Kotlin, Objective C, Swift, AngularJS, Ionic, and so on. He has excelled in Software Development with C#, .NET, Java, C++, and Python. He designed a number of ICs’ and EDA’s layouts over last 4 years.

Over last one decade, he did a number of projects related to Physics, Computer Science, Electronics, and Medical Science. He has experience with leading and managing multiple projects at the same time and getting the best results from all the projects. He is an open source enthusiast and contributing to a number of open source projects. If you want to know more about Syed and know updates about his works, you can visit his website www.towaha.me or see his tweets @SOFTowaha.