A 5-inch quad on a workbench, The Slate wrapped in black and mounted between the flight controller stack and the camera.

SlateFPV  ·  v1.0.0-beta1

The Slate

Arm the quad. The camera rolls.

Out now in beta.

Recording starts when you arm. The camera's own state sits on your Betaflight OSD, so you know it is rolling before you leave the ground.

See The Slate Read the source
A 5-inch freestyle quad, battery strapped on, with an action camera held over the stack in a printed cradle.

Behind it

One pilot, in Hungary

SlateFPV is one person who flies, building the parts he wanted and could not buy. Everything here started as a problem on a real quad rather than a gap in a product line.

Accessible before clever

The aim is gear that is easier to get hold of and easier to live with than what it replaces — built on boards you can already buy and a flight controller you already own. Nothing here needs a proprietary anything, and nothing is locked to a part only one shop sells.

Whatever can be published, is

Source, wiring, measurements, and the CAD when there is CAD. Not as a gesture: a part you can read is one you can repair when a supplier disappears, and one you can change to fit a build nobody else has. Openness is a maintenance decision here before it is a philosophical one.