awesome-flying-fpv

JeNo 5.1"

Modern carbon wide X-frame with accessoirs

3D printed frame, 4S power, 16x16 AIO stack, 2023

3D printed frame with mostly a 18650 Liion cell and a all-in-one board for whoops, 2021

Optimized frame with integrated battery holder, 2022

With GPS and slightly lighter in 3 variants also for 21700 cells, 2021

Lighter and similar to NLR, but 21700 cell, 2022

Full 3d printed heavy quadcopter with custom made motors, 2023

2020

3D printed whoop, 2018

CNC cut by carbon, 2020

Robust frame for research, swarms and indoor with RPI companion computer, 2021

TBS Source One

Carbon racing frame in 5 revisions, 2021

Carbon racing frame, 2019

TBS Source Podracer

3D carbon racing frame, 2020

5" carbon racing frame, 2021

TBS Source X

Carbon racing frame, 2019

Modular and customized 3D and carbon frame, 2021

3D printed with gimbal option 2017

3D printed with closed case , 2015

3D printed foldable, 2014

Huge quad 3D printed, 2014

Huge quad 3D printed, 2013

3D printed LW-PLA 1m++ pusher / puller wing, full BOM + manual docs, 2023

Use folded depron panels for body and wings for a V-Tail pusher

3D printed ABS V-tail plane for research, 2022

Sub 1m pusher trainer plane, 2022

1.3m depron wing ,2021

Glider, 2021

Drak like fixed wing printed with PETG, 2020

2 props dpron airplane, 2016

Simple race wing, 2019

Mostly 3D printed commercial airplane with wheels, 2019

Mostly 3D printed commercial airplane with wheels, 2018

36" fixed wing 3D printed, 2018

1m puller plane made of PLA, 2018

Jet like pusher RC plane

Sub 1m 3D printed pusher plane 2017

Fixed wing 3D printed, 2019

Fixed wing jet 3D printed with electric ducted fan (EDF) instead of classic propeller, 2016

80cm fixed wing 3D printed, developed in 6 revisions, 2016

1950mm printed plane with wing ribs, sucessor of Red Duck modell, 2014

Open Source aerobatics glider with a lot of remixes, 2005

MiniHawk-VTOL v2.0

3d printed with 3 props

3D printed and foam, 2018

Resulting wing profile 3D printing with LW-PLA

CNC carbon, 2018

4S and background infos, 2023

4S 3000mAh, 2020

For googles, with charge meter and 3D case, 2021

3D print for easier packaging, 2023

Plane with PV beplanned ribs, 2022

8hrs30 fixed wing full of solar cells with great measurements and background infos ( ), 2022

diyBMS v4

Battery management PCB and firmware for LiIon packs

BLheli_S

Popular Firmware for ESCs with fine-grained control

BlueJay

BLheli fork, Digital ESC firmware for controlling brushless motors. More features like custom melodies. Since 2020

AM32-MultiRotor-ESC-FW

DSHOT, telemetry, 2024

MESC FOC ESC

Open Hardware and Firmware for STM32 basrd ESC

ESC Configurator

Web app to setup your BLHeli / Bluejay ESC

PIDtoolbox

tuning your PID settings for max. performance of your specific modell

Focus on GPS based flight planning / autonomous flights for wings and copters

betaflight

Focus on racing and agility for wings and copters

EmuFlight

Focus on modern algorithms

dRonin

Supporting Openpilot and other target boards

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

Dedicated to VTOLs and it's transformation during flight process, Teensy Boards only

Rotorflight

Firmware for traditional single-rotor helicopters

HPR-Rocket-Flight-Computer

High speed rockets firmware

CleanFlight

Legacy fork of baseflight , stall

BaseFlight

Legacy and oldest FW of the days of Wii gyro hacks and 8bit, stall

QUICKSILVER firmware

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Paparazzi UAV

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LibrePilot

Stall since 2018

madflight

For Arduino based target boards, different sensors supported, 2024

The Cube Autopilot

FC hardware like the Pixhawk 2,

RISCV cpu experiments on DIY quadcopter

Multi Module

Supports different protocols like FrSky, FlySky, Walkera, Futaba, ...

ExpressLRS

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

ELRS Airport Firmware

2 way link for more complex telemetry downlink

mLRS

Mavlink compatible LRS

openLRSng

Next generation of OpenLRS, stall since 2018

Raven LRS

Lora based, 2019

Alternative firmware for FrSky modules, 2016

Alternative firmware for Walkera, 2016

OpenHD

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.

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

Use 2.4 / 5.8 GHz wifi hardware and RPIs to provide a video and telemetry downlink

wfb-ng on OpenIPC

Wifibroadcast NG on OpenIPC compatible CCTV modules, capable of 120fps or 4k video feeds with telemetry

DroneBridge

Use 2.4 GHz wifi hardware and RPIs, ESP32 and Android App for bidirectional link, to the other protocols here

EZ Wifibroadcast

Oldest and first wifi based VTX setup

wtfos

Rooting and mod DJI FPV sender and receiver

DigiView-SBC

Receive DJI HD signal, alpha 2021

OpenVTx

Free firmware for open hardware anlog VTX

VTX Power Measure

Python scripting the Immersion RF-Meter V2

Gyroflow

Use IMU sensor data to smooth HD video recordings

How to user RPI to read this sensors

RC Headtracker

Turn camera gimbal when you turn your googles. Based on Arduino and Bluetooth

STORM32BGC

Firmware and brushless gimbal controller

2013

Software toolchain to process radio signals of GPS, Baidu, GLONASS that are received by SDR hardware radio backends

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

Get indoor positioning via commercial optical systems for a whole drone swarm

QLiteOSD

ESP32 based OSD to read sensors without FC

ultrasonic obstacle avoidance for quadcopter and OpenHD teamplay

5,8GHz analog display with diversity

FENIX-rx5808-pro-diversity

Open Hardware 5,8GHz analog module with diversity for googles

rpi-rx5808-stream

RPI based 5,8GHz analog with diversity streaming server

u360gts

360° motor tracker using F2/F3 controllers that control, firmware + hardware + case, 2020

AntTracker

Servo based using F1 / ESP8266 / ESP32 controllers, 2019

Simplified design, all components in moving head

open360tracker

360° servo tracker 2016

Amv-open360tracker

Fork 2016

Amv-open360tracker 36bit

Fork 2016

Different forks 2014

5,8GHz helical directional antenna for analog googles with 3D printed skeleton

5.8GHz omnidirectional antenna for analog video transmission

MAVlink

Modern extensible protocol from hobbiests ... commercial UAV

Fka. UAVCAN industrial only drone bus system

YAMSPy

Read MSP serial protocol with Python

LuaTelemetry

OpenTX / EdgeTX script that renders live cockpit and map from telemetry datastream

betaflight-tx-lua-scripts

Script to show telemetry and control e.g. CAM, VTX settings

otxtelemetry

OpenTX / EdgeTX script to add Mavlink support

INAV blackbox viewer

Render sensor / motor values as video overlay OSD

INAV blackbox tools

Convert to CSV timeseries files or as visual OSD overlay

flightlog2x

Convert blackbox logs of INAV, OpenTX, ... to CSV, GPX, KML and render tracks and trajectory with different performance styles, separate

UAVLogViewer

Web application for Ardupilot logs

OSD-subtitles

Render Blackbox logs to OSD as subtitle for synconous plaback with video file

Closed Source OSD rendering for blackbox logs

PID-Analyzer

Read blackbox and tune PID control variables

openXsensor

Convert and alter telemetry protocols

OpenLog

With firmware for blackbox data recorder (today usually part of main FC)

mwptools

Waypoint mission planner esp. for INAV including INAV Radar and ADS-B sources

Mavlink compatible, with experience from MP and Q Groundcontrol

QGroundControl

Mavlink, Desktop and mobile

Waypoint Mission planning esp. for Ardupilot

Commandline and GUI mission planer and telemetry viewer and processor

BulletGCSS

Uses GSM and MQTT for extra long range links

Dreka GCS

A new GCS (currently limited but more modern look & feel)

öchìn CM4

RPI Compute Module carrier board dedicated for FC

Mavlink focused OS for different SBCs

Mavlink focused RPI image

ROS

Robot Operating System, to handle more complex and interactive flights

DroneKit

Multi platform integration ecosystem including Mavlink radio link

Stitch photos to aerial imagery, calc 3D models, ...

OpenAerialMap

Share Drone shots for disaster response etc

DroneDB

Store and archive drone shots and aerial imagery

OpenAthena

Auto GCP detection using markers

Mobile mapping system that carries a laser scanner

BANet

ML segmentation of areas for aerial imagery

AVCBet

ML segmentation of areas for aerial imagery

Faster

ML let drones learn to avoid obstacles

Fast-Planner

Learn drones to avoid obstacles on the course

RPI based CV and route planning and obstacle avoidance

Drone-net

ML detect quadcopters within photos / videos using YOLO v4

Fire Detection UAV

ML learn drones to spot fire

DroneAid

ML find persons in disaster response by emergency markers

AirPose

ML human pose estimation from drone perspective

How a 300mph / 480 km/h quadcopter rocket needs to be designed and build. Similar is the (but only 200mph)

Woodframed mini quad without BLDC and custom RF link around MultiWII

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

Octocopter made from wood as heavy lift to drop seeds

3D printed OSHW drone and ecosystem esp. for CV autonomous agile flight research, 2023

A not so FPV drone that uses custom modules and different technology for swarm control

ESP-Drone

ESP32 and PCB only based quadcopter without FPV but custom wifi on brushed

no traditional FPV, but low cost quad using ESP32 board, 2022

Easy 3D printed copter that uses RPI as WIFI remote control with App, 2016

For rc airplanes, 2018

For rc planes, closed source, sucessor of SSS, stall since 2019

FlightGear - Usually for big airplanes, but can be paired with FC good description or for simulation

AirSim

By Microsoft for algorithm testing

jMAVSim

For Mavlink

JSBsim

With bindings to Python, Matlab

GAZEBOsim

Multi robot

ROS supports simulations like described

by Mr.D for fixed wing

mwp-radar-view

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

LORA radio and ESP32 broadcast positions and show it at your OSD

Wifi radio of ESP32 to broadcast position and telemetry and show it at your OSD

SoftRF

UAV edition, supports also FLARM and more

Share FLARM / ADS-B positions online

Share ADS-B positions online

ArduPilot RemoteID Transmitter

FCC RemoteID with Mavlink and DroneCAN integration

WiFi RID capture

Capture remote identification signals with sniffer

Track DJI drones using wifi and KISMET sniffer

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

Decoding DJI radio transmissions including DroneID and pilot location with SDR in python

Talk on difficult debugging the PX4 hardware micocontrollers with RTOS NuttX (cccamp23 by Niklas Hauser)

Using hack-rf SDR

Use BladeRF SDR with GNUradio to block satellites

Controll others UAVs by faking satellite transmissions from ground

RemoteID Spammer/Spoofer

An ESP8266/NodeMCU Drone RemoteID Spoofer

Robot Vulnerability Database

CVEs for semi-autonomous machines

Delta 5 race timer

Use 5.8GHz video signals to trigger lap counter

RotorHazard

Sucessor with multinode and central RPI server

Capture The Flag for drones

Optical system to emulate a flag for close team-fights

Is an Appllication for Flight controller parameters settings and blackbox log reader for betaflight, iNAV, emuflight ,

App is for configuring BLHeli_32 ESCs

Sorts the channels for each pilot over the available frequencies

See the weather forecast, GPS satellites, solar activity (Kp), No-Fly Zones and flight restrictions ,

A UVC Video Camera display and capture app, built for my DIY First Person View goggles

Avoid damaging your expensive components during build up

4AxisFoamCutter

Create aerodynamic wings from foam

Home for MavLink, QGroundcontrol and PX4, part of Linux foundation

Keep drones hackabel and safe

🇩🇪 Events, local communities, assurance, ...

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Most projects offer here support

Group to most projects, hardware and countries

Recipes to custom builds

From the old days till the present working on open modells

Is Stack Overflow Q&A for drone building

Everything from flights, crashes, repairs, custom mods, ...

Everything but for RC planes

Important blog with builds and configurations and knowledge

Forum with helpful information about anything FPV related

Forum, Blog, Builds on fixed wing esp. with INAV compatible autopilot

🇩🇪 Auch Selbstbau

🇩🇪 Über Selbstbau auch von Schiffen und Autos. Sehr umfangreiches

🇩🇪 Auch Selbstbau

UK builds, mods and configuration basics

BG builds and configurations as well as (a bit) mapping

US, build and general tips on copters, slogan 'You gonna learn something today'

INAV core team, mostly copters, slogan 'Happy Flying'

AU, mostly airplane reviews and build tipps

UK, Darren, INAV

Reviews, but also OpenHD and ExpressLRS

OpenHD, RubyFPV, WFG-NG experiments

OpenHD, RubyFPV experiments

TV show, unusual DIY builds

Flight footage and repair videos for DIY drone electronics

Builds, mods and basics

Builds, INAV, longrange