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# DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones

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desertcart.com: DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones: 9781259861468: Cinnamon, Ian, Kadri, Romi, Tepper, Fitz: Books

Review: Perfect Balance: Drone Flight Theory and Build Practicality - "DIY Drones for the Evil Genius" (by Ian Cinnamon, Romi Kadri and Fitz Tepper) provides a very effective overview to move from the many available toy drones to the more serious hobbyist level. The book is well organized, allowing the reader to dive into the theory as deep as desired or pick and choose specific subjects of interest to rapidly meet their needs. For me, I was admittedly after more of the "get your hands dirty" portions of the book to get right in and start building my own drone after "outgrowing" my more "toy" drone. But for those more interested in taking a "theorist" approach to the flight of drones, the book also provides aerodynamics of aviation flight and supporting physics, all very useful depending on how much you thirst for theory vs. just the practical aspects. Regardless of which extreme you fall into, or a balance of both, the book provides the information in a well written, easy to understand document, along with great illustrations and organization. In conclusion, the reader can immerse themselves in as much or little of the theory needed to build their own drone, or more likely, come back to the theory later on as building and flying the drone progresses and the interest level for the theory increases. Several key considerations make this book a great purchase. First, its very well priced, and provides ever so important specific drone first class component sourcing references and vendors to build a top notch drone, and at attractive pricing. One of my concerns going into this purchase questioned if the supplier references would be limited to purchasing from authors of the book, which refreshingly was NOT the case. In fact, the references provided in the book take you to various desertcart vendors, many of them "Prime" in fact, selling the specific components and at very reasonable and competitively priced. For me, this is very important keeping the presentation/learning materials very separate from the purchasing side of the components so the book does what its supposed to do, provide objective guidelines and references. Finally, and something one does not often see when purchasing "how to" books is the outgoing support and availability of the primary author, Ian Cinnamon. I had several questions regarding following my initial reading of the book. A link is provided to reach out to Mr. Cinnamon, which I honestly did not expect any kind of effective or timely responses. To my surprise, he responded within minutes of my first inquiry, answering all questions with a willingness to continue helping me as needed which he has. So the author takes a wonderful "hands-on" approach through his timely availability. I look forward to progressing towards the start of building my first drone which is anticipated shortly, having confidence that the book will provide such a broad amount of information, but most important, knowing that the author openly is making himself availble via email to help, making this home-built drone nothing short of a success.
Review: Still a genius, not that evil. - Good book to lay out some clarity of those considering getting into drones, or those of us with questions. Interesting read.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #687,677 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #52 in Aircraft Design & Construction #317 in Robotics & Automation (Books) #410 in Piloting & Flight Instruction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 203 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Balance: Drone Flight Theory and Build Practicality
*by J***B on January 3, 2017*

"DIY Drones for the Evil Genius" (by Ian Cinnamon, Romi Kadri and Fitz Tepper) provides a very effective overview to move from the many available toy drones to the more serious hobbyist level. The book is well organized, allowing the reader to dive into the theory as deep as desired or pick and choose specific subjects of interest to rapidly meet their needs. For me, I was admittedly after more of the "get your hands dirty" portions of the book to get right in and start building my own drone after "outgrowing" my more "toy" drone. But for those more interested in taking a "theorist" approach to the flight of drones, the book also provides aerodynamics of aviation flight and supporting physics, all very useful depending on how much you thirst for theory vs. just the practical aspects. Regardless of which extreme you fall into, or a balance of both, the book provides the information in a well written, easy to understand document, along with great illustrations and organization. In conclusion, the reader can immerse themselves in as much or little of the theory needed to build their own drone, or more likely, come back to the theory later on as building and flying the drone progresses and the interest level for the theory increases. Several key considerations make this book a great purchase. First, its very well priced, and provides ever so important specific drone first class component sourcing references and vendors to build a top notch drone, and at attractive pricing. One of my concerns going into this purchase questioned if the supplier references would be limited to purchasing from authors of the book, which refreshingly was NOT the case. In fact, the references provided in the book take you to various Amazon vendors, many of them "Prime" in fact, selling the specific components and at very reasonable and competitively priced. For me, this is very important keeping the presentation/learning materials very separate from the purchasing side of the components so the book does what its supposed to do, provide objective guidelines and references. Finally, and something one does not often see when purchasing "how to" books is the outgoing support and availability of the primary author, Ian Cinnamon. I had several questions regarding following my initial reading of the book. A link is provided to reach out to Mr. Cinnamon, which I honestly did not expect any kind of effective or timely responses. To my surprise, he responded within minutes of my first inquiry, answering all questions with a willingness to continue helping me as needed which he has. So the author takes a wonderful "hands-on" approach through his timely availability. I look forward to progressing towards the start of building my first drone which is anticipated shortly, having confidence that the book will provide such a broad amount of information, but most important, knowing that the author openly is making himself availble via email to help, making this home-built drone nothing short of a success.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Still a genius, not that evil.
*by S***R on July 25, 2019*

Good book to lay out some clarity of those considering getting into drones, or those of us with questions. Interesting read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great introduction to building drones.
*by M***E on January 12, 2017*

For an entry level book I would definitely recommend this book. I followed the instructions and built my first drone with the help of this book. Every person will probably make their own adjustments to suit their need as they build their own, but I think the author does a good job focusing on the basics and not making it too complicated for beginners. There are some parts that may need a little more description (some wiring), but over all I really enjoyed the material of this book. The website used makes it easy to search for the materials needed, some of the products are naturally updated, but all the materials are comparable to the predecessors. If you want to get into building your own drones and don't know where to start, then I would highly recommend this book to start with.

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