Technology: Drones

Take to the skies and become a skilled pilot, whatever your budget, with this complete guide to choosing and flying the right model for you. Find out how drones work, how to fly them, how to choose the right model for you, how to take amazing photos and videos, and more. Learn the key techniques of safe, legal, and skiled flight.

Learn to design, build, and pilot custom drones from inexpensive parts with this step-by-step guide. Covers safety, mechanics, drone design, and assembly, as well as the basics of aerospace engineering. Learn how to add video transmitters, GPS, first-person view, virtual reality goggles, and personalized features to your creations. Also includes a walk-through of the FAA licensing process, and takes a look at advanced concepts such as artificial intelligence and autonomous flight.

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. Through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such as the United States can destroy small targets halfway around the world with pinpoint accuracy. Now civilian industries are acquiring drones for everything from monitoring crops to delivering packages. Kreps explains how they and the systems associated with them work, how they are being used today, and what will become of the technology in the future.

"Drones For Dummies provides you with the information you need to find and purchase the right drone for your needs, examples of ways to use a drone, and even drone etiquette and the laws and regulations governing consumer drone usage. Plus, you'll discover the basics of flight, including how to use a drone to capture photos and video."

Want to make something that can fly? How about a flying robot? In this book, you'll learn how drones work, how to solve some of the engineering challenges a drone presents, and how to build your own--an autonomous quadcopter that you can build, customize, and fly. Your drone will be your eyes in the sky and in places where a human could never get to-much less fit!