This is more of a post reflecting on how much has changed in the hobby over the last few years.  

I got into fpv pretty heavily back in 2018/2019, moving on from the dji tello onto proper hobby built quads.   When I started betaflight was making inroads and cleanflight was on the way out.   Analog fpv was king and premium oled goggles were yet to hit the market.   25.5mm x 25.5mm AIO designs were still only in the realm of whoops.   Anything that had an integrated RX was frysky D8 with an arm's length range.

Now we have this sort of stuff.


Digital HD 1080P fpv transmission, sitting around 35ms latency with inbuilt control link (ELRS), 2S 12A capable ESC and F4 flight controller.  All this packing in at approx 20 grams.

Taking a step back from all the pissing contests this technology attracts , the progress the hobby has made is just mind blowing!

There has NEVER been a better time for evolution in FPV, even with the never ending increases in cost.

I was interested in doing a Gartner Magic Quadrant on the vendors that are in the hobby.  A quick take on the magic quadrant as a tool to compare vendors.

I dig the magic quadrant, I’m trying to figure out where DarwinFPV should go.

I think Matek isn't doing so well a late. A couple of months back people were saying not to use any FC they made because of a high failure rate. iFlight and JHEMCU are far worse, from reading many threads on here and other RC forums. A number of people have highlighted those three as being companies they won't buy parts from.

BetaFPV and probably on some levels, Happymodel do push at the lower levels to get out cost effective quads and parts. But I'd agree on BetaFPV being probably a visionary, as they have good ideas, but the QC isn't there yet.

A late I've seen a big push on RCinPower motors and so far the build quality seems to be spot on, but then they only seem to do motors, so Niche only. I'd also agree with Lemony on DarwinFPV, I think they would also fall into niche at the minute as they only really do a few things (quads, frames, FC's that i've seen). But what they do, seems to have a good rep.