AeroBat fpv

AeroBat FPV started as a pure passion project. When I first got into FPV, I made the questionable decision to build my very first drone without a kit. I made plenty of mistakes and broke more expensive parts than I’d like to admit, but the moment that drone finally took flight, I knew this hobby was going to consume me.

After that first flight, I spent countless hours modifying and personalizing existing frames to match what I imagined in my head. Custom mounts, aesthetic attachments, and replacement plates were all part of making the drone feel like my own. Eventually, staring at my screen one night, it hit me that the only real way forward was to design a frame from scratch.

I didn’t have access to CNC cut carbon fiber, so I turned to the next best option, 3D printing.

My first design was a prototype 5 inch frame. I was incredibly proud of it, but PLA couldn’t handle vibration or real freestyle abuse. If this idea was going to work, I needed true engineering materials.

PETG CF came next. It printed beautifully and was stiff enough, but even small crashes shattered the arms. Then came PP CF, which offered impressive stiffness and heat resistance but proved too brittle to survive real world flying.

Just when I started losing hope, I finally found what I had been searching for in PA6 CF. A nylon based composite reinforced with carbon fiber, it struck the balance perfectly, strong but lightweight, stiff yet able to damp vibrations, printable yet heat resistant.

From there, I moved to PAHT CF, a refined version optimized for even better thermal and mechanical performance.

Since then, AeroBat has been a constant process of refinement, optimizing designs, tuning print settings, and pushing 3D printed frames further than I thought possible. Seeing how far this project has come is incredibly rewarding, and I’m even more excited about what’s still ahead.