Building a Follow Me Drone

In Chapter 3, Preparing Your Drone for Flying, you learned how to build a simple DIY drone. In this chapter, we will be learning how you can give it a mind of its own. Imagine you are walking or riding a bike and a drone is following you; wouldn't that be cool?

In this chapter, we will see how we can build such a drone. In this chapter, we will also learn how we can train the drone to do something, or give the drone artificial intelligence by coding from scratch. There are several ways to build Follow Me-type drones. We will learn easy and quick ways in this chapter. Before going any further, let's learn the basics of a Follow Me drone.

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