I had been interested in FPV quadcopters ever since I saw one on vacation in Mexico, and at my school, we have this hour for a "capstone project" that we have to finish by the end of the year. I though it would be interesting and fun project to research and build an FPV quadcopter. Over the course of the project, I had to overcome some challenges:
1 - I had to buy a new flight controller and esc because I rendered a pad unusable and made the mistake of buying an aio flight controller
2 - I had a crappy soldering iron from amazon that made the build take way too long, so I had to buy a new one
3 - I made the mistake of not securing my balance plug TWICE, so I had to buy new balance leads because they got chopped up. Those were fun to solder back on (I recommend using rubber bands to secure them)
4 - I made the mistake of buying RPSMA goggles and SMA antennas, so I had to buy an adapter
5 - I put the VTX over the boot button on the flight controller, that took 20 minutes to figure out
Overall, the build ended out great, although I had to squeeze some components in there