Basic Quadcopter Tutorial - Chapter 1 Video Lecture | Drones for Beginners: How to make Arduino Drones - Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)

hey everyone alpha hug reply I'm
recording a series of videos on how to
put a quadcopter together using our
hover fly pro board so what you see in
front of you is it's the basic parts of
a quadcopter so I'll describe a few of
these essentially you're going to need a
frame which typically consists of some
bars or some kind of material that's
going to form the booms you're going to
need four booms and they're going to
need to be connected together somehow to
form a + or X configuration quadcopter
then you're going to need some plates
which I've made these these are eighth
inch aluminum and these plates hold the
bars in the square configuration and
they give you a surface or a platform to
mount all of your electronics on it's
always good to have something for your
quadcopter to land on these are just
some tier X 600 I think landing gear a
couple of dollars they're going to mount
on the bottom of the mounting plates and
that'll provides provide something for
my quad to land on that's the basic
frame other things that you're going to
need are you're going to need four
motors and I'm not going to go into
detail in the videos about what motor
and propeller to choose because there's
a wealth of information on the RC groups
forums so I'll leave you with this one
tip and that's that in general you want
to have about twice as much thrust is
your whole quadcopter is going to weigh
so if it's going to weigh ten pounds
you're going to need at least 20 pounds
of thrust and that's to give the
controller the flight controller enough
control authority to be able to keep
your quadcopter stable but also be able
to fly and maneuver the way you want to
do it so I won't go into detail on the
kinds of motors and props you should do
a little research most motors when you
go to the specification sheet will list
different propellers and approximately
how much there
they can generate so the motor like this
generates five pounds of thrust well
four of these is going to generate about
20 pounds of thrust so that will that
will work out about right for us I will
talk about how I connectorized these and
a little bit later in the video then
what I call a power system you're going
to need four speed controllers so I've
got one two three four of these guys
you're going to need a power harness and
this you're going to have to build and I
will have a video showing you how I put
this together
that's all connected to a lithium
polymer battery this is a 4400 milliamp
power battery pretty typical for a quad
this size and then there's some extra
parts here you're going to need a dome
to protect everything with and then
there's some extra parts of here and
I'll explain what those are as I build
this so in this series of videos I'm
going to go from these parts to a full
quad and then we'll go outside and we'll
fly it and I'll show you how to tune the
gain and how to get it in the air and as
you can see I've already built this quad
and made sure that all the parts fit
that's the hardest part for you is
building your frame and getting your
quadcopter together as far as connecting
everything together once it has the
connectors on it and programming the
flight controller and getting it to do
what you want that part's relatively
easy and I think you'll see that in the
video so we're going to change the view
now and in the second video and I'm
going to build the frame