Course chapters
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🎯 What you’ll learn
- Types of drones
- Drones in farming, films and rescue
- Parts of a quadcopter
🎬 Animated demo
A quadcopter takes off, hovers and lands.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Drone use-case poster
- Label a quadcopter
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Four forces of flight
- How propellers push air
- Hovering vs climbing
🎬 Animated demo
Increase thrust and watch the drone climb against gravity.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Paper helicopter experiment
- Balloon rocket thrust test
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Clockwise and anticlockwise props
- Brushless motors
- Why four motors
🎬 Animated demo
Spin props in pairs and see the drone stay steady instead of spinning.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Propeller direction puzzle
- Fan thrust test
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Frame sizes and materials
- Weight and payload
- Centre of gravity
🎬 Animated demo
Add weight and see the drone need more power to hover.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Cardboard frame model
- Payload weight chart
🎯 What you’ll learn
- LiPo batteries
- Why flights are short
- Battery safety
🎬 Animated demo
Slide the battery down to see when to head home, then work out flight time.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Flight time calculator
- Battery safety poster
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Reading sensors many times a second
- Adjusting each motor
- Flight modes
🎬 Animated demo
The brain nudges each motor to keep the drone level.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Flight controller block diagram
- Mode comparison chart
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Sensing tilt
- Correcting wobbles
- Why drones don’t tip over
🎬 Animated demo
Tilt the drone and see which motors speed up to level it again.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Tilt sensor demo
- Balance-board experiment
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Throttle, yaw, pitch and roll
- Radio links
- Range and failsafe
🎬 Animated demo
Match each move to throttle, yaw, pitch or roll and see what each stick does.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Stick-control practice on a simulator
- Controls cheat-sheet
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Aerial photos and video
- Thermal and farm cameras
- Obstacle sensors
🎬 Animated demo
A drone camera shows a field from high above.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Plan an aerial photo
- Map your school from above (image)
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Holding position with GPS
- Waypoint missions
- Return-to-home
🎬 Animated demo
The drone flies a route by itself and returns home.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Waypoint mission on a map
- Return-home story
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Green, yellow and red zones
- Nano drones and registration
- Flying safely and respectfully
🎬 Animated demo
See a map with zones where drones can and can’t fly.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Safe-flying checklist
- Zone map of your area
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Choose a mission
- Plan route, battery and safety
- Present your mission
🎬 Animated demo
A full mission plan comes to life from take-off to landing.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Crop-check mission
- Rescue delivery mission (final project)