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Each of the motors will be hooked up to this board through its ESC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60db6427ba7b506789465c36/1630968155762-BV57UVDKY92UK18CAY2J/41X%2BkjJCHsL._AC_.jpg Blog - All about drone guts The electronic speed control gets power from the PDB and instructions from the flight controller, and in turn powers and controls the motor it’s connected to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60db6427ba7b506789465c36/1633378762894-RHW1G5VA1W2S8BPL95CW/61urbMs6-nL._AC_SL1500_.jpg Blog - All about drone guts Even if you don’t know how electric motors work (which, by the way, totally reasonable. I only have some idea. I think it’s magnets?) you probably know what they are. This motor receives power and instructions from its ESC and spins a propeller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60db6427ba7b506789465c36/1630968459318-OUR2O00JK3FK4JZC1DIT/61KTDffCi5L._AC_SL1500_.jpg Blog - All about drone guts The flight controller is the (pretty dumb) brains of the drone. It gets control input from the receiver, and figures out what the inputs mean in terms of how the motors should spin. It translates those inputs into instructions which it sends to the ESCs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60db6427ba7b506789465c36/1629741308153-BS73R1SCIB4T3ITM1NWB/PXL_20210819_215500600.jpg Blog - All about drone guts The receiver is a chip which listens for instructions radioed to it, which it picks up with its antenna. (Aside: electronics are incredible. Remote communication? What? Yes, I know we’ve had radio communication for a century. That doesn’t make it mundane. We did not evolve to find this stuff intuitive. There’s so much for us to wonder at in the universe .) The receiver passes these instructions on to the FC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60db6427ba7b506789465c36/1630967641050-KNND5FAVUKUTWSEC3XKS/radiomaster-tx16s-multi-protocol-rf-2.4ghz-16ch-radio-transmitter-_hall-gimbal_-black-1000x1000.jpg Blog - All about drone guts The Rx communicates with the transmitter (Tx), which is usually, and in this case, a handhold remote control. It’s similar to a remote control car controller… but way more so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60db6427ba7b506789465c36/1629937470859-CY5X0Q22K1YZQLW937G8/Capture.PNG Blog - All about drone guts The receiver is supposed to connect to the flight controller, passing along the instructions from the transmitter in the remote control, telling the vehicle how it’s supposed to be moving. This particular receiver has eight places to connect wires. 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