Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the Parallax Elev-8 (Paperback)
暫譯: 打造自己的四旋翼飛行器：使用 Parallax Elev-8 提升您的設計 (平裝本)

Build a custom multirotor aircraft!

Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the Parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully functioning quadcopters in no time. Discover how to connect Elev-8 components, program the microcontroller, use GPS, and safely fly your quadcopter. This fun, do-it-yourself guide fuels your creativity with ideas for radical enhancements, including return-to-home functionality, formation flying, and even artificial intelligence!

• Understand the principles that govern how quadcopters fly
• Explore the parts included in your Parallax Elev-8 kit
• Follow illustrated instructions and assemble a basic 'copter
• Connect the Parallax chip to a PC and write Spin and C programs
• Build radio-controlled systems that minimize interference
• Add GPS and track your aircraft through Google Earth
• Beam flight information to smartphones with WiFi and XBee technology
• Mount cameras and stream real-time video back to the ground
• Train to safely operate a quadcopter using flight simulation software