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Annotation Build a custom multirotor aircraft!Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully funct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norris, Donald (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:
Quadrotor helicopters > Design and construction > Amateurs' manuals.
Quadrotor helicopters > Automatic control > Amateurs' manuals.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Annotation Build a custom multirotor aircraft!Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully functioning quadcopters in no time. Discover how to connect Elev-8 components, program the microcontroller, use GPS, and safely fly your quadcopter. This fun, do-it-yourself guide fuels your creativity with ideas for radical enhancements, including return-to-home functionality, formation flying, and even artificial intelligence!Understand the principles that govern how quadcopters fly explore the parts included in your Parallax Elev-8 kit follow illustrated instructions and assemble a basic 'copterConnect the Parallax chip to a PC and write Spin and C programsBuild radio-controlled systems that minimize interferenceAdd GPS and track your aircraft through Google EarthBeam flight information to smartphones with WiFi and XBee technologyMount cameras and stream real-time video back to the groundTrain to safely operate a quadcopter using flight simulation software.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 343 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780071822282 (print-ISBN)
0071822283 (print-ISBN)