Drones

A safety-first learning map for understanding civilian drones, their roles, and their radio systems. This is reference material, not a flight-operating manual or an RF test playbook.

Start here

1. Drone landscape — categories, missions, and major subsystems.
2. Radio and frequency guide — what the common bands mean and what they do not mean.
3. Safe learning path — a simulation and bench-first progression.
4. Sources and validation — authoritative sources and refresh gates.

Hands-on: LiteWing (ESP32 drone)

5. LiteWing flight guide — from box to first flight: mental model, battery, pre-flight, hover drills.
6. LiteWing first-flight checklist — the phased procure → bench-gate → flight runbook.
7. LiteWing ML autonomy plan — gated phases P0–P5: manual flight → cflib scripting → vision-based follow-me → floor mapping.
8. RadioMaster Boxer ELRS bench reference — user-supplied workflow captured with firmware, RF, binding, and flight safety gates.
9. Boxer firmware-upgrade bench guide — backup-first EdgeTX/internal-ELRS procedure plus UI/DFU/USB error-diagnosis ladder.

Security 101: understand → threat model → attack

10. Wi-Fi FPV drone 101: target to attack — a vendor-neutral, non-cyber-friendly class using the budget Wi-Fi FPV toy-drone archetype to teach the full arc: read the target (teardown + recon), threat model it (DFD, trust boundaries, STRIDE), then run authorized attacks on your own device. Also available as 11-wifi-fpv-drone-101-target-to-attack.html.

Programming: Rust flight-control path

A dedicated Rust-first LiteWing course is planned under the TutorMe subject. It will keep host-model evidence separate from hardware integration and physical-flight evidence.