The Tiny Whoop is essentially a Blade Inductrix with the canopy removed and a tiny camera mounted on top. Thus, it’s a natural evolution for the Furibee F36 and other Blade Inductrix clones. But I don’t like the top-mounted camera, so I decided on a low-profile underslung camera build.
Parts and Equipment
For this build, I used the following:
- Eachine VTX03 5.8GHz video transmitter
- Generic 600TVL 100 degree field of view camera
- Soldering iron
- Soldering wire
- Wire snips
- Double-sided tape
Build Procedure
- I test-mounted the video transmitter and the camera first. I tried to put the video transmitter under the flight controller so I can still keep the canopy. But it just wouldn’t fit. I ended up getting rid of the canopy altogether and mounting the video transmitter on top of the flight controller. The camera fit perfectly in between the ducts.
- I was afraid of damaging the densely packed video transmitter board so I decided to just use its wires to connect to the camera. I just cut them to length.
- After taking note of the contact points, I unsoldered the microphone and all the wires from the camera.
- I soldered the wires from the video transmitter into their corresponding contact points on the camera board. It’s just color matching: black to black, yellow to yellow, and finally red to red.
- I used double-sided tape to mount the video transmitter.
- I used a zip-tie to prop up the video transmitter’s antenna.
- With the video transmitter firmly in place, I soldered the wires for the power (thicker red and black wires) to the flight controller board.
- Finally, I also used double-sided tape to mount the camera.
And that’s, it. I now have a DIY Tiny Whoop.
I’ll review the video transmitter and the camera once I’ve used them more.