UDI U818A - Stand Alone - Camera Mount & Battery Storage

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I buy inland filament from Mircocenter. So I'm frequently at the Michigan store. My son and I bought the UDI U818A-1 quadcopter - drone there over a good year ago, and it has been the best quadcopter we ever owned. It has survived so many crashes and has not even broken once. .. We almost lost it the 1st night by taking it up 200 feet at night and the wind grabbed it. We battled the wind for 10 mins (in the low setting (should have had it in the high setting)), but If fell down from 200 ft after the battery gave out. We found it 30mins later on the side walk, on a street 2 blocks over from our street. ... LOL So it is worth outfitting this quadcopter / drone with a FPV camera. Yes it already has a camera at the bottom, but it's not FPV, and I didn't want to buy the UDI FPV version that has it. Side Note: Also with buying a seperate tiny whoop FPV camera, it can be re-purposed to be used on my son's RC Truck. Also the cost to get into FPV racing is a bit steep, especially if you just want to try it to even see if you like it. So instead of buying new equipment, I simply designed/remixed a camera mount to hold a tiny whoop camera on the UDI U818A-1 quad.* Rubber bands hold it down well. My son has so much FUN!!! The UDI U818A-1 quad is more than strong enough to fly with 2 batteries.... one for the camera, and one for drone. The drone's main battery is located at the bottom. Original camera used was the Crazepony 5.8Gz Polarized Clover Leaf Antenna ($25), which fit this top mount the best. However, so how it is now missing (Ugh! It is so small it might have accidentally been thrown away; I hope we find it). The FPV camera in the pictures is the Wolfwhoop WT05 Micro AIO ($17), so the top piece had to be mirrored to accommodate the camera wires (I had to trim at the back too, see pictures). This camera has a wider angle view of 140 degrees (Note: The Crazepony had 120 degree view). But the clover antenna is suppose to get a longer range. The FPV viewer my son received for Christmas was the Eachine EV800 ($90). Works great! End result... a fun drone that my son can fly around the house. He sits in the basement, and flies it up to the 2nd floor where the bedrooms are with no issues. *Note: I'm not the original designer of the camera mount on the top piece ... See 30 x 30 Top mount tx03 cam universal ... # 2192570. Updated Comment (2018-04-09): For faster and longer flight times, remove the blue plastic housing, then see my alternate design of a dome with camera mount .... thingi 2816084. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2816084