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Raven

An 8-stage solo roadmap from tilt-rotor eVTOL to a 4-drone autonomous swarm.

Stage 1 — in progress2025 — 2028eVTOLtilt-rotorautonomypower electronicsswarmfirmware

EV-stack hardware engineer translating battery / BMS / drive / control experience into aerospace.

  • Tilt-rotor airframe with two wing-tip rotors and a tail rotor
  • Custom Li-ion pack + BMS with cell balancing and thermal monitoring
  • STM32-based flight controller with IMU + barometer + GPS fusion
  • Mid-stage: lidar + visual-inertial odometry, full GNC stack
  • Late-stage: shared mission state across 4 vehicles
Summary

Raven is a self-directed eVTOL program. I'm building it the way a startup would build a flight vehicle: hardware first, vertically integrated, on a fixed timeline. Eight stages, each with a deliverable I can fly or measure. The end state is a coordinated 4-drone swarm running shared mission state on aerospace-grade autonomy hardware.

Why I'm building this

Recruiters at Skydio, Anduril, Shield AI, Zipline and AeroVironment all want hardware engineers who can own a propulsion / autonomy stack end-to-end. The fastest way to prove I can do that is to actually do it — solo, on a clock, in public. Raven is the proof artifact.

Roadmap

8 stages, one airframe at a time.

Where Raven is today and what's next.

Stage 01IN PROGRESS

Airframe + tilt-rotor mechanism

Carbon-tube boom, V-tail, two-axis tilt mechanism with redundant servos.

Stage 02NEXT

Power system + BMS

Li-ion pack, custom slave-board BMS, telemetry, thermal cutoffs.

Stage 03FUTURE

Flight controller bring-up

Custom flight controller, IMU + baro + GPS fusion, manual hover.

Stage 04FUTURE

Autonomous hover + waypoint

RTK GPS + altitude hold, mission planner integration.

Stage 05FUTURE

Lidar + visual odometry

Companion compute for VIO, indoor flight without GPS.

Stage 06FUTURE

Full GNC stack

Closed-loop guidance, obstacle avoidance, automated transition to forward flight.

Stage 07FUTURE

2-drone coordination

Mesh networking, shared world state, formation flight.

Stage 08FUTURE

4-drone autonomous swarm

Coordinated mission execution, dynamic role assignment, fault-tolerant handoff.