I'm looking to build a very small, light and cheap fixed-wing UAV for basic vertical aerial photography. I envisage using the new v1.3 of the Raspberry Pi Zero (with camera port) with the new 8MP Pi camera module. On top of these will go a PXFmini for Pi Zero. Relatively speaking this would be a pretty small but flexible combination. I'd like to house them in the smallest fixed-wing platform possible, with things like wing loading, endurance and range being secondary or tertiary considerations.

So, my question is, which fixed-wing platforms would fit the bill (and fit the kit!)?

So far these have appeared on my radar:

  • Skywalker X1
  • Mini Skywalker
  • Mini Swift
  • Micro Cushat

Pi Zero with dimensions:

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pi_zero_mechanical.png

PXFmini with dimensions:

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PXFmini_intro2.jpg?width=700

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  • I think that is a good solution mainly for the weight and it would be pretty neat, even a small wing can handle it, i am working in something similar but no doing everything with the pi zero (cause i don´t believe it can handle such computing load) just the aerial imagery (with IMU and GPS) and control a multirotor with pixhawk.

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