Built this as a backup freestyle quad.
I didn't need all the height that 30mm standoffs provide, so I wanted to run this with shorter (25mm) standoffs. The main challenge was finding a way to mount the camera, since the stock carbon camera plates won't fit with shorter standoffs.
These are the mounts I ended up using:
https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/ee/35/0b/b8/c8/SRC1RunCamSwiftMountL.stl
https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/35/26/b8/e9/55/SRC1RunCamSwiftMountR.stl
Since the original build I've converted my freestyle quads over to Crossfire, so I've updated the parts list below.
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