Hello,

Criticism of the TinyApe Freestyle design and solution
I don't think the design of the 2.5 inch DarwinFPV TinyApe Freestyle is particularly good. Because 2.5 inch propellers can touch the cam screws on the frame. In order to make something usable out of it, I converted it into a Tiny 2 inch cinewhoop, 66 grams without battery.

Injection plastic vs 3D print prop guards
The prop guards used are injection (cut out on the Meteor85 frame), so should be more durable than 3d printed TPU prop guards that some use in toothpick to cinewhoop conversions.

Injection plastic prop guards are also available cheaply in certain Chinese shops, for example. But with the Meteor85 or Mobula8 cut outs, however, you know that they will relatively always be available as soon as you need new ones and that they have high quality...

True cinewhoop if using the battery below and a Runcam Thumb Pro V2 on top
I use the battery above. But if you use the battery at the bottom, what's possible if you lift the mainboard with 2 mm spacers and use the strap slots in the bottom frame, you could theoretically easily place a Runcam Thumb Pro V2 on top of the frame and produce really good tiny cinewhoop HD recordings imo. Perfekt for indoor, excursion with close flight to people, small park, ...

I may do this in the future, with a custom TPU mount for the Thumb Pro V2, on the 4 front screws of the top plate...

Two colored prop guards
I use 2 colored prop guars. Doesn't look that nice, but like this it is more easy to fly it VLOS.

Part you need for this build/solution:

• DarwinFPV TinyApe Freestyle drone (2-3S, 1103 motors 8000KV, AVTX 600mW, 15A ESC, ...)
• Meteor85 frame (you can cut out the prop guards)
• Titanium M1.6 5 mm screws to mount the prop guards. (You need longer srews than original which are 4 mm, you can also use 6 mm, but they are 0.5 to 1.0 mm oversized but fits also without touching the coils)
• Titanium M2 6 mm screws to mount the props if the props are 5 mm
• Flywoo Atomic 40mm UFL antenna 10mm tube and some glue to attach it to the TPU antenna mount.
• Gemfan 2023-3 or other 2 inch props, 4-5 blade might be an alternative and probably not a problem.

More criticism: No 0° cam tilt possible!: Another thing I don't like about the frame design: I can't set the camera (Runcam Nano 4) to 0° because it touches the top of the frame. A minimum of 5-10° is only possible. Since I fly 3D I would actually like 0°. And if the camera touches the frame, a short circuit may occur, which is exactly why I stuck some tape between the camera and the frame.

Videos: (New to Old)
There may be videos about this in a few months.

This are two videos without the prop quads. The last of both videos (Charge 61-68) shows the problem with the props hitting the srews:

Charge 69-86 of My very first FPV series | 2.5" TinyApe F. | Old people's home SERVIOR

Charge 61-68 of My very first FPV series | 2.5" TinyApe F. | Kaltreis Alzette Valley

Greets
Sugalime3D FPV