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UAV toolkit

A curated list of tools and resources for building and operating unmanned aerial vehicles

Curated list of free software and hardware to build remote controlled copters and planes

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Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / Multicopters 🚁
JeNo 5.1" 18 3 months ago Modern carbon wide X-frame with accessoirs
Goblin v3 3D printed frame, 4S power, 16x16 AIO stack, 2023
NanoLongRange 3D printed frame with mostly a 18650 Liion cell and a all-in-one board for whoops, 2021

Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / Multicopters 🚁 / NanoLongRange
Discovery Edition Optimized frame with integrated battery holder, 2022
NanoLongRange 2 With GPS and slightly lighter in 3 variants also for 21700 cells, 2021

Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / Multicopters 🚁
NLR35 Lighter and similar to NLR, but 21700 cell, 2022
hefty Full 3d printed heavy quadcopter with custom made motors, 2023
Ultimate 3D printable Cinewhoop 2020
TinyTina 3D printed whoop, 2018
Heavy Lift Quadcopter Frame CNC cut by carbon, 2020
The CogniFly Robust frame for research, swarms and indoor with RPI companion computer, 2021
TBS Source One 480 almost 2 years ago Carbon racing frame in 5 revisions, 2021
TBS Source Two Carbon racing frame, 2019
TBS Source Podracer 26 over 4 years ago 3D carbon racing frame, 2020
TBS Source V 5" carbon racing frame, 2021
TBS Source X 29 over 5 years ago Carbon racing frame, 2019
AESIR II Modular and customized 3D and carbon frame, 2021
Foldable Drone Frame 3D printed with gimbal option 2017
OpenRC Quadcopter 3D printed with closed case , 2015
Hovership MHQ2 3D printed foldable, 2014
Crossfire 2 Huge quad 3D printed, 2014
Spyda 500 Huge quad 3D printed, 2013

Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / Fixed Wing / Planes 🛩️
HAWk Modular RC Wing Airplane v1 3D printed LW-PLA 1m++ pusher / puller wing, full BOM + manual docs, 2023
V-Tail Aircraft for Long Range FPV & Autonomous Missions - by AeroStuff FPV Use folded depron panels for body and wings for a V-Tail pusher
Highly Modular Design -1 (HMD1) 3D printed ABS V-tail plane for research, 2022
Ranger V2 Sub 1m pusher trainer plane, 2022
Berkik 3 wing 1.3m depron wing ,2021
LukiSegler Glider, 2021
SakhWing Drak like fixed wing printed with PETG, 2020
GemINIce 2 props dpron airplane, 2016
Joywing Simple race wing, 2019
Eclipson Model V Mostly 3D printed commercial airplane with wheels, 2019
Eclipson Model Y Mostly 3D printed commercial airplane with wheels, 2018
Northern Pike 36" fixed wing 3D printed, 2018
Moose 1m puller plane made of PLA, 2018
Supernove Jet like pusher RC plane
RC Flying Wing Sub 1m 3D printed pusher plane 2017
GASB Three Fixed wing 3D printed, 2019
GASB Two Fixed wing jet 3D printed with electric ducted fan (EDF) instead of classic propeller, 2016
GASB One 80cm fixed wing 3D printed, developed in 6 revisions, 2016
Red swan 1950mm printed plane with wing ribs, sucessor of Red Duck modell, 2014
Le Fish glider Open Source aerobatics glider with a lot of remixes, 2005

Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / VTOLs 🚀
MiniHawk-VTOL v2.0 220 over 2 years ago 3d printed with 3 props
VTOL in 5 revisions 3D printed and foam, 2018

Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / VTOLs 🚀 / VTOL in 5 revisions
wing profile Resulting wing profile 3D printing with LW-PLA

Awesome Flying FPV / Airframes / VTOLs 🚀
bicopter kit CNC carbon, 2018

Awesome Flying FPV / Batteries & Power Control 🔋 / 18650 LiIon packs
Using Li-Ion Battery Pack for Long Range FPV Flying 4S and background infos, 2023
build a „LongRange“ Lithium Ion Battery 4S 3000mAh, 2020
DIY FPV Goggle Battery Pack For googles, with charge meter and 3D case, 2021
18650 spaceholder 3D print for easier packaging, 2023

Awesome Flying FPV / Batteries & Power Control 🔋 / Solar plane
Solar Dragon - Solar Plane Might Be Able To Last Through The Night Plane with PV beplanned ribs, 2022
rctestflight series 8hrs30 fixed wing full of solar cells with great measurements and background infos ( ), 2022

Awesome Flying FPV / Batteries & Power Control 🔋
diyBMS v4 937 9 months ago Battery management PCB and firmware for LiIon packs

Awesome Flying FPV / Motor Control ⚙️
BLheli_S 1,980 4 months ago Popular Firmware for ESCs with fine-grained control
BlueJay 491 over 2 years ago BLheli fork, Digital ESC firmware for controlling brushless motors. More features like custom melodies. Since 2020
AM32-MultiRotor-ESC-FW 330 20 days ago DSHOT, telemetry, 2024
MESC FOC ESC 39 over 3 years ago Open Hardware and Firmware for STM32 basrd ESC
ESC Configurator 167 about 2 months ago Web app to setup your BLHeli / Bluejay ESC
PIDtoolbox 562 3 months ago tuning your PID settings for max. performance of your specific modell

Awesome Flying FPV / Flight Control 👨‍✈️
INAV Focus on GPS based flight planning / autonomous flights for wings and copters
betaflight 8,747 20 days ago Focus on racing and agility for wings and copters
EmuFlight 460 about 2 months ago Focus on modern algorithms
dRonin 289 over 3 years ago Supporting Openpilot and other target boards
Ardupilot Full ecosystem including professional / research use for wings and copters and even land or water vehicles. A lot of information, experiences and possibilities, but also more complex than INAV
dRehmflight 1,074 about 1 month ago Dedicated to VTOLs and it's transformation during flight process, Teensy Boards only
Rotorflight 64 6 months ago Firmware for traditional single-rotor helicopters
HPR-Rocket-Flight-Computer 92 3 months ago High speed rockets firmware
CleanFlight 2,612 about 1 year ago Legacy fork of baseflight , stall
BaseFlight 501 almost 9 years ago Legacy and oldest FW of the days of Wii gyro hacks and 8bit, stall
QUICKSILVER firmware 177 15 days ago ?
Paparazzi UAV 1,557 13 days ago ?
LibrePilot 325 about 1 year ago Stall since 2018
madflight 127 19 days ago For Arduino based target boards, different sensors supported, 2024
The Cube Autopilot 124 15 days ago FC hardware like the Pixhawk 2,
Risc V Powering a 3D Printed Drone RISCV cpu experiments on DIY quadcopter

Awesome Flying FPV / RC Transmitters & Handcontroller 🎮 / Modules 🧩
Multi Module 1,669 3 months ago Supports different protocols like FrSky, FlySky, Walkera, Futaba, ...
ExpressLRS 3,737 about 1 month ago ELRS for long range or better latency. support. flashing some existing hardware, but also provide commercial modules for 868/915 MHz or 2.4 / 5.8 GHz

Awesome Flying FPV / RC Transmitters & Handcontroller 🎮 / Modules 🧩 / ExpressLRS
ELRS Airport Firmware 3,737 about 1 month ago 2 way link for more complex telemetry downlink

Awesome Flying FPV / RC Transmitters & Handcontroller 🎮 / Modules 🧩
mLRS 350 14 days ago Mavlink compatible LRS
openLRSng 283 about 6 years ago Next generation of OpenLRS, stall since 2018
Raven LRS 165 over 4 years ago Lora based, 2019
OpenSky Alternative firmware for FrSky modules, 2016
DeviationTX Alternative firmware for Walkera, 2016

Awesome Flying FPV / VTX 📺
OpenHD 1,975 22 days ago Use 2.4 / 5.8 GHz wifi hardware and SBCs on air and groundside to provide a video and telemetry downlink and an optional control uplink. Try to develop a more efficient dedicated hardware board.
RubyFPV Use 2.4 / 5.8 GHz wifi hardware and RPIs to provide a video and telemetry downlink and an optional control uplink. No source provided but plugin system
Wifibroadcast NG 1,034 about 1 month ago Use 2.4 / 5.8 GHz wifi hardware and RPIs to provide a video and telemetry downlink
wfb-ng on OpenIPC 53 12 months ago Wifibroadcast NG on OpenIPC compatible CCTV modules, capable of 120fps or 4k video feeds with telemetry
DroneBridge 766 almost 3 years ago Use 2.4 GHz wifi hardware and RPIs, ESP32 and Android App for bidirectional link, to the other protocols here
EZ Wifibroadcast 827 11 months ago Oldest and first wifi based VTX setup
wtfos 266 over 1 year ago Rooting and mod DJI FPV sender and receiver
DigiView-SBC 91 over 3 years ago Receive DJI HD signal, alpha 2021
OpenVTx 371 9 months ago Free firmware for open hardware anlog VTX
VTX Power Measure 4 about 2 years ago Python scripting the Immersion RF-Meter V2

Awesome Flying FPV / Camera & Gimbals 🎥
Gyroflow 6,903 24 days ago Use IMU sensor data to smooth HD video recordings
OpenHD on thermal cameras How to user RPI to read this sensors
RC Headtracker 382 2 months ago Turn camera gimbal when you turn your googles. Based on Arduino and Bluetooth
STORM32BGC 597 6 months ago Firmware and brushless gimbal controller
Open Brushless Gimbal 2013

Awesome Flying FPV / GPS 🛰️
GNSS SDR Software toolchain to process radio signals of GPS, Baidu, GLONASS that are received by SDR hardware radio backends
rtklib Software toolchain to increase precision of GNSS signals by applying realtime or post-processing to eliminate interferences. Signals recorded by SDR or some commercial GPS modules
Vicon MavLink 22 over 5 years ago Get indoor positioning via commercial optical systems for a whole drone swarm

Awesome Flying FPV / Sensors 🌡️
QLiteOSD 21 5 months ago ESP32 based OSD to read sensors without FC
3D Printed Drone Build - How to Wire OpenHD and Ultrasonic Abstacle Avoidance ultrasonic obstacle avoidance for quadcopter and OpenHD teamplay

Awesome Flying FPV / Video Receivers 📶
DIY Homemade FPV Monitor 5,8GHz analog display with diversity
FENIX-rx5808-pro-diversity 89 almost 4 years ago Open Hardware 5,8GHz analog module with diversity for googles

Awesome Flying FPV / Video Receivers 📶 / FENIX-rx5808-pro-diversity
rx5808 pro divesity 617 10 months ago

Awesome Flying FPV / Video Receivers 📶
rpi-rx5808-stream 26 over 7 years ago RPI based 5,8GHz analog with diversity streaming server

Awesome Flying FPV / Antennas and Trackers 📡
u360gts 220 about 2 months ago 360° motor tracker using F2/F3 controllers that control, firmware + hardware + case, 2020
AntTracker 157 about 2 months ago Servo based using F1 / ESP8266 / ESP32 controllers, 2019
open360tracker v2 Simplified design, all components in moving head
open360tracker 41 about 8 years ago 360° servo tracker 2016

Awesome Flying FPV / Antennas and Trackers 📡 / open360tracker
Amv-open360tracker 21 almost 9 years ago Fork 2016
Amv-open360tracker 36bit 0 over 8 years ago Fork 2016

Awesome Flying FPV / Antennas and Trackers 📡
Ghettostation Antenna Tracker Different forks 2014
DIY Helical Antenna For Long Range FPV 5,8GHz helical directional antenna for analog googles with 3D printed skeleton
Cloverleaf Antenna - Build Instructions 5.8GHz omnidirectional antenna for analog video transmission

Awesome Flying FPV / Telemetry & Logs 📊
MAVlink 1,757 18 days ago Modern extensible protocol from hobbiests ... commercial UAV
Cyphal Fka. UAVCAN industrial only drone bus system
YAMSPy 96 9 months ago Read MSP serial protocol with Python
LuaTelemetry 293 about 3 years ago OpenTX / EdgeTX script that renders live cockpit and map from telemetry datastream
betaflight-tx-lua-scripts 611 4 months ago Script to show telemetry and control e.g. CAM, VTX settings
otxtelemetry 38 about 1 year ago OpenTX / EdgeTX script to add Mavlink support
INAV blackbox viewer 35 4 months ago Render sensor / motor values as video overlay OSD
INAV blackbox tools 14 15 days ago Convert to CSV timeseries files or as visual OSD overlay
flightlog2x 22 29 days ago Convert blackbox logs of INAV, OpenTX, ... to CSV, GPX, KML and render tracks and trajectory with different performance styles, separate
UAVLogViewer 143 17 days ago Web application for Ardupilot logs
OSD-subtitles 12 almost 2 years ago Render Blackbox logs to OSD as subtitle for synconous plaback with video file
Dashware Closed Source OSD rendering for blackbox logs
PID-Analyzer 376 almost 4 years ago Read blackbox and tune PID control variables
openXsensor 172 over 1 year ago Convert and alter telemetry protocols
OpenLog 555 over 2 years ago With firmware for blackbox data recorder (today usually part of main FC)

Awesome Flying FPV / Mission Control & Basestation 🗺️
mwptools 215 13 days ago Waypoint mission planner esp. for INAV including INAV Radar and ADS-B sources
APM Planner 2.0 Mavlink compatible, with experience from MP and Q Groundcontrol
QGroundControl 3,380 13 days ago Mavlink, Desktop and mobile
MissionPlanner Waypoint Mission planning esp. for Ardupilot
MAVProxy Commandline and GUI mission planer and telemetry viewer and processor
BulletGCSS 46 about 1 year ago Uses GSM and MQTT for extra long range links
Dreka GCS 50 about 2 years ago A new GCS (currently limited but more modern look & feel)

Awesome Flying FPV / Companion Computers & Integration 💻
öchìn CM4 89 5 months ago RPI Compute Module carrier board dedicated for FC
APsync Mavlink focused OS for different SBCs
RPanion Mavlink focused RPI image
ROS 2,877 10 months ago Robot Operating System, to handle more complex and interactive flights
DroneKit 1,633 7 months ago Multi platform integration ecosystem including Mavlink radio link

Awesome Flying FPV / Computer Vision 🤖
OpenDroneMap Stitch photos to aerial imagery, calc 3D models, ...
OpenAerialMap 245 12 months ago Share Drone shots for disaster response etc
DroneDB 222 about 1 month ago Store and archive drone shots and aerial imagery
OpenAthena 86 4 months ago Auto GCP detection using markers
OpenMMS Mobile mapping system that carries a laser scanner
BANet 13 over 2 years ago ML segmentation of areas for aerial imagery
AVCBet 34 over 1 year ago ML segmentation of areas for aerial imagery
Faster 983 8 months ago ML let drones learn to avoid obstacles
Fast-Planner 2,528 2 months ago Learn drones to avoid obstacles on the course
Autonomous Drone Dodges Obstacles Without GPS RPI based CV and route planning and obstacle avoidance
Drone-net 154 about 4 years ago ML detect quadcopters within photos / videos using YOLO v4
Fire Detection UAV 183 over 3 years ago ML learn drones to spot fire
DroneAid 129 25 days ago ML find persons in disaster response by emergency markers
AirPose 52 almost 3 years ago ML human pose estimation from drone perspective

Awesome Flying FPV / Complete Systems 🎁
Guiness World record drone build How a 300mph / 480 km/h quadcopter rocket needs to be designed and build. Similar is the (but only 200mph)
Arduino FPV Mini Drone Woodframed mini quad without BLDC and custom RF link around MultiWII
SearchWing A Search and Rescue RC airplane for visual inspection of huge areas on sea to rescue people from refugee boats at the EU sea border. Waterproof to land beside the SAR mothership
Dronecoria Octocopter made from wood as heavy lift to drop seeds
Agilicious 3D printed OSHW drone and ecosystem esp. for CV autonomous agile flight research, 2023
Crazyflie A not so FPV drone that uses custom modules and different technology for swarm control
ESP-Drone 580 4 months ago ESP32 and PCB only based quadcopter without FPV but custom wifi on brushed
ESP32 Drone no traditional FPV, but low cost quad using ESP32 board, 2022
Wifree-copter Easy 3D printed copter that uses RPI as WIFI remote control with App, 2016

Awesome Flying FPV / Security & Safety 🪂 / Simulators 🌐
crrcsim For rc airplanes, 2018
Picasim For rc planes, closed source, sucessor of SSS, stall since 2019
from PaparazziUAV FlightGear - Usually for big airplanes, but can be paired with FC good description or for simulation
AirSim 16,581 6 months ago By Microsoft for algorithm testing
jMAVSim 89 6 months ago For Mavlink
JSBsim 1,418 16 days ago With bindings to Python, Matlab
GAZEBOsim 741 15 days ago Multi robot
by PX4 ROS supports simulations like described

Awesome Flying FPV / Security & Safety 🪂 / Checklists 📋
iNav Pre-maiden Checklist by Mr.D for fixed wing
Ardupilot Copter Checklist

Awesome Flying FPV / Security & Safety 🪂 / ID Systems 🛂
mwp-radar-view 215 13 days ago ADS-B transmitters of airplanes can be received using software defined radios can be realized using cheap USB DVB-T receivers. Can be integrated via radar extensions like , or in OpenHD. Is part of Mavlink protocol and shows up on most GCS. Can also be viewed online like
INAV Radar 70 over 2 years ago LORA radio and ESP32 broadcast positions and show it at your OSD
FormationFlight Wifi radio of ESP32 to broadcast position and telemetry and show it at your OSD
SoftRF 800 17 days ago UAV edition, supports also FLARM and more
Glidernet Share FLARM / ADS-B positions online
Opensky Network Share ADS-B positions online
ArduPilot RemoteID Transmitter 103 2 months ago FCC RemoteID with Mavlink and DroneCAN integration
WiFi RID capture 36 over 1 year ago Capture remote identification signals with sniffer
Drone Detection and Tracking Using RF Identification Signals Track DJI drones using wifi and KISMET sniffer

Awesome Flying FPV / Security & Safety 🪂 / Hacking & Hijacking 🔓
WTF WJI, UAV CTF? Talk on DJI mini 2 reverse engeniering to bypass manufacturers limitations. Mem dump analysis and crypto keys decryption and radio analysis. About DJI ecosystem and used (cccamp23 by Felix Domke)
Drone-ID Receiver for DJI OcuSync 2.0 1,007 almost 2 years ago Decoding DJI radio transmissions including DroneID and pilot location with SDR in python
Debugging Microcontrollers Talk on difficult debugging the PX4 hardware micocontrollers with RTOS NuttX (cccamp23 by Niklas Hauser)
5.8GHz video demodulation Using hack-rf SDR
GPS jamming Use BladeRF SDR with GNUradio to block satellites
GPS spoofing Controll others UAVs by faking satellite transmissions from ground
RemoteID Spammer/Spoofer 375 3 months ago An ESP8266/NodeMCU Drone RemoteID Spoofer
Robot Vulnerability Database 180 6 months ago CVEs for semi-autonomous machines

Awesome Flying FPV / Accesoirs 🪠
Delta 5 race timer 160 over 3 years ago Use 5.8GHz video signals to trigger lap counter

Awesome Flying FPV / Accesoirs 🪠 / Delta 5 race timer
RotorHazard 200 18 days ago Sucessor with multinode and central RPI server

Awesome Flying FPV / Accesoirs 🪠
Capture The Flag for drones 19 about 3 years ago Optical system to emulate a flag for close team-fights

Awesome Flying FPV / Accesoirs 🪠 / Mobile Apps 📱
SpeedyBee Is an Appllication for Flight controller parameters settings and blackbox log reader for betaflight, iNAV, emuflight ,
BLHeli_32 App is for configuring BLHeli_32 ESCs
FPV Video Channelsorter 5.8GHz Sorts the channels for each pilot over the available frequencies
UAV Forecast See the weather forecast, GPS satellites, solar activity (Kp), No-Fly Zones and flight restrictions ,
Go FPV A UVC Video Camera display and capture app, built for my DIY First Person View goggles

Awesome Flying FPV / Accesoirs 🪠 / Workbench 🧰
smoke stopper Avoid damaging your expensive components during build up
4AxisFoamCutter 81 over 3 years ago Create aerodynamic wings from foam

Awesome Flying FPV / Communities 🗣️
Dronecode foundation Home for MavLink, QGroundcontrol and PX4, part of Linux foundation
FPV Freedom Coalation Keep drones hackabel and safe
Deutscher Modellflieger Verband e.V. 🇩🇪 Events, local communities, assurance, ...
Deutscher Aero Club e.V. 🇩🇪

Awesome Flying FPV / Communities 🗣️ / Forums & Social Media
rcroups.com Most projects offer here support
diydrones.com Group to most projects, hardware and countries
rotorbuilds.com Recipes to custom builds
openrcforums.com From the old days till the present working on open modells
Stackexchange Drones Is Stack Overflow Q&A for drone building
reddit \motorcopter Everything from flights, crashes, repairs, custom mods, ...
reddit \RCPlanes Everything but for RC planes
OscarLiang.com Important blog with builds and configurations and knowledge
intofpv.com Forum with helpful information about anything FPV related
INAV fixed wing group Forum, Blog, Builds on fixed wing esp. with INAV compatible autopilot
fpv-community.de 🇩🇪 Auch Selbstbau
RC-Network.de 🇩🇪 Über Selbstbau auch von Schiffen und Autos. Sehr umfangreiches
kopterforum.de 🇩🇪 Auch Selbstbau

Awesome Flying FPV / Communities 🗣️ / Video Channels
Painless 360 UK builds, mods and configuration basics
ArxangelRC BG builds and configurations as well as (a bit) mapping
Joshua Bardwell US, build and general tips on copters, slogan 'You gonna learn something today'
PawelSpechalski INAV core team, mostly copters, slogan 'Happy Flying'
Andrew Netwon AU, mostly airplane reviews and build tipps
Mr. D - Falling with style UK, Darren, INAV
CurryKitten Reviews, but also OpenHD and ExpressLRS
MarioFPV OpenHD, RubyFPV, WFG-NG experiments
TreeOrbit OpenHD, RubyFPV experiments
flitetest.com TV show, unusual DIY builds
Livyu FPV Flight footage and repair videos for DIY drone electronics
Adam G does FPV Builds, mods and basics
BLuefish Builds, INAV, longrange

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