Build a Drone
A Step-by-step Guide to Designing, Constructing, and Flying Your Very Own Drone
Skyhorse · Print & ebook · November 22, 2016
Whether you plan on using drones for recreation or a more serious purpose (from search and rescue through farming to scanning construction work on a high-rise apartment buildings), Build a Drone will make sure that you not only understand how to construct a drone, but the proper and safe ways to maintain and handle them.
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- Who it’s for
- Build a Drone covers construction, calibration, safe flying, military history, and drones’ impact on everyday life.
- Themes
- Drone construction and design, Safe handling and flight, Drone history and societal impact
- Genres
- Robotics, Aeronautics & Astronautics
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Whether you plan on using drones for recreation or a more serious purpose (from search and rescue through farming to scanning construction work on a high-rise apartment buildings), Build a Drone will make sure that you not only understand how to construct a drone, but the proper and safe ways to maintain and handle them. Within the last couple of years, the usage of drones in both the public and private (military) sector has exploded.
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People are talking about drones, building drones, and something most people didn’t know of a few years ago is now a household name. Build a Drone will not only teach you how to build your very own drone, but will explain their history in the military and the impact they will have—and are starting to have—on our everyday lives. Chapters include: - Ready Made or Build - Skills and Understanding the Drone Build - Drone Assembly - Setup and Calibration - Safety and Flying Your Drone - Designing Your Own Drone - And more! Author Barry Davies has built drones for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and AAI (one of America’s largest drone manufacturers), as well as six experimental ones for MIT. He not only understands their use in the world, but knows the ins-and-outs of how they can be created and handled.
Drone Assembly
Build a Drone covers construction, calibration, safe flying, military history, and drones’ impact on everyday life.
Come here for
- Building, assembling, setting up, and calibrating a drone
- Designing your own drone and learning safe handling
Expect
- Guidance on maintenance, handling, and flying
- Discussion of drones’ military history and everyday impact
Where it sits
| Aeronautics & Astronautics | 60% |
|---|---|
| Robotics | 37% |
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- Aerodynamics
- Authors
- Barry Davies
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
- Published
- November 22, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Drone construction and design · Safe handling and flight · Drone history and societal impact
- Reading lane
- Teaching Science & Tech