I chose this build because it seemed to involve the least amount of soldering. It's my first quad and everything went together easily. The software side of things was a little tricky since I'd never used Betaflight before but after much tinkering and cursing it's going.

I built the quad primarily to explore a bunch of old structures around Nashville with and it's worked fairly well for that. The secondary plan was to mount a medium format film camera to the quad which would enable me to shoot some unique images. I'm in the process of designing and building a light weight camera with automatic rewind but to start with (since it was free) I stuck my girlfriends granddads old Brownie Hawkeye to the body and have a servo to control the shutter. First tests are pretty nice, I'm sure once I get a better hang of flying things will be better still.

Update: after 20 or so flights the bearings on the Ldarc XT2306 motors are toast. Most of them are squealing and have significant play. Given that bearings cost almost as much as a new motor I'd say pass on these.