Building Your Own Drones: A Beginners' Guide to Drones, UAVs, and ROVs

Building Your Own Drones: A Beginners' Guide to Drones, UAVs, and ROVs

<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Absolutely no experience needed!<BR> </B> <I>Build your drone, step-by-step, with this full-color, hands-on guide!</I> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">You’ve heard about drones. You’ve seen drones. Now, build your own—it’s a lot easier than you think!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Drones are the newest frontier for the DIY/maker community, and you don’t need to be a technical expert to build one. John Baichtal, the #1 author of hardware hacking books for beginners, will teach you all the skills you need.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">First, Baichtal shows you the amazing drones others have built. Then, he walks you through several complete projects: quadcopters, UAVs, ROVs, and more. Not ready to start from scratch? No problem: Baichtal helps you choose from today’s best new kits.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Hundreds of full-color step-by-step photos teach you every step, every skill. When you’re ready for more advanced concepts, Baichtal explains them in plain English.</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Discover what drones are and why they’re so exciting</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Explore today’s most imaginative projects, from 3D-printed mini quadcopters to floating robot armies</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Compare kits, from $200 up: Parallax ELEV-8, DJI Phantom 2 Vision+, OpenROV, Actobotics Nomad, Brooklyn Aerodrome Flack, and more</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Create your own practical Drone Builder’s Workbench</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Build complete rocket, blimp, waterborne, and automotive drones</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Construct both fully autonomous and radio-controlled drones</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Choose and assemble your chassis (airframe), motor, props, flight control, power system, accessories, and software</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Integrate Arduino to make radio-controlled drones operate autonomously</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Teach a drone to navigate via RFID tags</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Learn all the basic electronics and programming you’ll need</DIV> </LI> </UL>