Chapter 12. Expanding Your Drone’s Abilities

Congratulations! You have done it. You built your first drone, and you have learned a number of valuable lessons along the way. It is our hope that at least some of these lessons will resonate with you in a way that encourages experimentation in the future. This chapter gives you a few suggestions for modifications that you can make now that you’ve mastered the art of building drones.

Add a Camera and First-Person View

If you built the autonomous kit, it did not come with an FPV package or camera. Now that you are comfortable building these aircraft, it’s a great time to add a live video feed to see what your drone sees in real time. To do this, you will need to add a video transmitter on the ...

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