Serves me right for noticing I hadn’t bought anything recently. 
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Oh, yeah, I forgot about this bit. 
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Well you was right Jez, it was fine last time out, a couple of weeks ago… right before crashing into concrete 
lol
I ordered 16 foam planes for the kids at my misses’ preschool, but kept one (they are 80p each).
I’m going to convert it to fpv with 2 wing motors, 2 servos and hdzero fpv all on 2s.
I’ve started by taking the leds off and scoring the foam for the flaps.
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Which FC will you be going for? Matek F411 Wing? WSE?
Or something more estoteric?
I’m going to use the fc from my tinyhawk freestyle simply because it has esc’s built in and I can get some osd on my video. Should fit nicely. I’ll need to print some motor mounts. 2 7000kv motors should be enough 
Ooo yes… of course I was considering doing something like this with my Darwin AIO which has one busted ESC.
So, what to do about servo control? Steal what had been an ESC output or resource map a different pad?
What size motors?
Which is MATEKF411 target… so of course has INAV firmware being Matek!
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Easy. I put inav on it and use 2 motor outputs as servo control. The power for the servos coming from the lipo direct. Or if there is interference from them, a small 5v bec I have
They will be the thfs motors 1108. Its an experiment to see if it flys
Yes, of course, but… on my AIO, that would mean tiny soldering onto the S Pads… mind you I think I just found them… not so bad.
Cool… a bit bigger than my spares… 1106.
I will watch this with interest… as I have many of the bits needed already.
I found the esc controller. I just need to find the pins on the stm that are mapped to it. The cli should give this.
Had been eyeing one too for quite a while but never got to follow on.
“Jerry’s done one though not FPV”
“Just a thought” you gave me the camera you’d have used….
Nah, not going back to analogue. Can’t see anything
yep, i’ll have to solder straight to the stm ic
Sounds like a fun job!
I’m rather pleased the Darwin AIO is actually separate ESC and FC soldered together. You can see the connection strip, it even has labels!
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Just arrived and soon to be on my bench!
It’s seems like it will be a lot smaller and lighter than the existing 3", which weighs 230g (ish) without Peanut and battery. It’s also quite a bit lighter than the Gecko frame.
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So BF 4.3.0 upgraded. VTX and camera fitted and working.
Still got the RX to fit and probably the GPS. Also the Caddx Peanut mounts
So the old drone weighed about 230g. This one weighs 115g. That’s quite some difference! Though I guess the peanut mount will take it back up a bit. (peanut itself was not included in the 230g)
Anyway, that’s it for tonight…
Would be interested to learn about what components you have used in this build.
I have a tadpole frame sat in my “to build” drawer.
However I’m considering a hd tadpole.
Looks great though