This board can be powered using the Mini USB port. Due to its small size and light weight, I will be using this for our RC Plane Transmitter Receiver. It can be connected to the PC using a mini USB cable and can be programmed by Arduino IDE. The Arduino Nano is tiny micro controller board powered by Atmega 328 chip. Put these straws gently on the motors’s gearings.You like this video, click the subscribe below to subscribe my youtube channel for future updates.
I used extra strong straws that I got from a local bakery and cafe. After this cut 15 cm straws these will hold the motors in place. The L293D can drive these motors, but I recommend to use some power transistors because this chip cannot handle all the four motors at high power (more than 2 Ampers). Look at the pictures, they say much more, you have to connect black and blue wires to the GND and positive wires to the Outputs 1-4, just like me.
Now you have to solder all cables from the motors to the L293D motor driver IC. Step 5: Circuit SchemanticĪlways look at the schemantic while working and be careful with the connections. You just have to put the motor in its hole, and attach the props to the gearing. I bought these proppellers with motors from the for 18 bucks, they are spare parts for the Syma S5X drone, but they seemed useful so I ordered them, and worked fine.
The video quality with this camera is not the best, but I didn’t find low weight 1080p cameras.
The left guy in a yellow T-shirt held the phone, that transmitted the GPS data. But the test succeeded, and as you can see the drone still is not very stable, but worked. I asked two good friends of me to walk in the front of the drone, while I was under the drone, to save it if falls down. During the summer I want to hack my bigger drone with this software. So that is all that the first version can do, of course I want to develop it.
I think this is pretty much features from a homemade drone. Of course has many failings yet, because I wasn’t able to make a proffesional filming drone, but follows the phone, makes a video and also has a ultrasonic distance sensor to avoid the obstacles in the air.
This drone can be connected to an Android smartphone that sends its GPS data to the drone, that compares to its own GPS signal, then starts to follow phone, so if I move on the street the drone follows me. I used the MultiWii flight controller that is based on the ATMega328 chip that is also used in the Arduino UNO, so programming was pretty simple. I like to program Arduino and design circuits and gadgets so I started to build it. I have four drones (quadcopters and hexcopters), because I love everything that flies, but the 200th flight isn’t so interesting and starts to be boring, so I decided that I will build my own drone with some extra feutures. You can find professional and even beginner drones and flying gadgets in the market. Drones are very popular toys and tools these days.