Microhawk VTOL

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Print the Wing and Center Fin as templates for foamcore. Print the Wing Root and Cap at 20% infill (I used Polypropolene filament). Other required items are electronics in the form of a Pixhawk Flight Controller with a GPS + Compass, (1) 5a uBEC, (4) 0802 brushless drone motors and props (2-CW, 2-CCW), at least a 12 amp 4-in-1 esc (or you can creatively fit 4 individual ESCs), a receiver (mine is ELRS), a pair of Bamboo Skewers for wing spars (hot glued in place), an AIO FPV camera (I will be changing this to an HD Walksnail 1s Lite when I get it - which may affect the fuselage design-stay tuned), (2) 2s x 450mah Lipo batteries, (1) XT30 female connector. This concept was originally proven with a Mobula6 tinywhoop with a simple wing attached to align with the centerline of the FPV camera, flown in acro mode (no horizon lock), landed in Horizon mode (you could use Angle mode if you want both features available simultaneously). In the interest of tail landings and automated waypoint missions, it was upsized as you see it here to accept the Pixhawk flight controller that I had at my disposal. Any FC that can run the Quadplane fork could be used, and would likely be even more efficient due to the lighter flight controllers available out there. Mission Planner is my preference for configuring/Programming the flight controller, but QGroundControl is good as well. (https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/common-choosing-a-ground-station.html#common-choosing-a-ground-station)