Welcome to our Pathfinder Explained Series, where we share our real-world insights in bite-sized educational videos. In this episode, we'll do an overview of how QuadPlanes actually work, and what are some of the most potent use-cases for long-range autonomy. Enjoy! - Pathfinder Series: - Pathfinder Interviews: - Pathfinder Explained: - I Built an Autonomous Drone at Home: - I Built a QuadPlane with my 3D Printer: - 3D Printable Designs: - Landing Page: Fixed wing drones have 10 times the range of traditional rotor drones, unlocking exciting use cases and business opportunities. Vertical Take-Off and Landing, enables superior autonomy, additional use-cases and rapid reusability (drone in a box) of fixed wing drones. Autonomy reduces operational costs with orders of magnitude, making services widely available to businesses and governments, while on-board machine vision enables completely new solutions to their challenging problems. 3D Printing with advanced filaments cuts production costs with orders of magnitude to enable nation--wide coverage with relatively small capital investment. With Nomadium Robotics, I'm combining all 4 of those requirements to develop aerial robotics for a resilient future | Building your own UAV is an incredibly fulfilling and challenging experience, which I am hoping you will embark on. Special thanks to: Flightory ( ) for creating amazing 3d models (not sponsored) and 3D MOMCI ( ) for 3d printing. Disclaimer: The Aircraft models are designed and sold by Flightory. They are proprietary and CANNOT be used for commercial purposes without their explicit consent. -- Electronics Used: Flight Controller | SpeedyBee F405 WING | GPS | Matek M10Q GPS & Compass | ESC | KM45 45A BLHELI_32 ESC BY SKYSTARS | VTX | DJI O3 Air Unit | Motors | EMAX ECO II 2807 1300kv | Battery | LiPo 6S 6000mAh or 11000mAh Servos | 2x PowerHD HD-1810MG for tilt rotors and 4x Corona 929MG for control surfaces Cooling | 5v fan for the VTX and 24V fan for the ESC Air speed sensor | None, but I advise you to add one. +Lot's of cables and connectors. Be ready to solder. Link to custom designs: 0:00 - Intro 0:15 - What is VTOL? 1:25 - How It's Made 2:20 - How it Works 5:11 - Communication 8:04 - Use-Cases 11:15 - The Software 11:54 - Up Next 12:11 - Drone Building Series 12:37 - Autonomy Is Here