Steps common to both projects have no marker after the title Parts with two asterisks are required only for the more limited quadcopter. Parts with one asterisk are required only for the unfinished project of a more autonomous quadcopter. In the materials list, parts with no asterisk are required for both goals. Also, you will hopefully walk away with a drone. This a great project to learn something about building and coding for Arduino no matter how much experience you have. If you feel comfortable digging deep into Arduino or already have a lot of Arduino experience and would like to take our stopping point as a jumping-off point for your own exploration, then this Instructable is also for you. We have also included all the steps we took on the way to a more autonomous quadcopter. We have included instructions on how to replicate our product if you are happy with the more limited quadcopter.

However, a surprising amount had to change in order to mesh these two projects, and thus we ended up making a GPS-enabled FPV quadcopter, without any of the added functionality. We naively assumed that combining existing Arduino programs and wiring for a quadcopter without GPS with those of a GPS transmission system would be relatively straightforward and that we could quickly move on to more complex programming tasks. We set out to build an Arduino-controlled and stabilized, GPS-enabled first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter drone with return to home, go to coordinate, and GPS hold functions.

Drones with video controller