Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the Parallax Elev-8

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.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 theParallax 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 flyExplore the parts included in your Parallax Elev-8 kitFollow illustrated instructions and assemble a basic 'copterConnect the Parallax chip to a PC and write Spin and C programsBuild radio-controlled systems that minimize interferenceAdd GPS and track your aircraft through Google EarthBeam flight information to smartphones with WiFi and XBee technologyMount cameras and stream real-time video back to the groundTrain to safely operate a quadcopter using flight simulation software