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ERA 3.5″ Mini Frame Kit, DJI O4 Pro

ERA 3.5″ Mini Frame Kit

Regular price $87.00 USD
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⚠️ Before you order - read this +

Frame kit only: Electronics, ELRS antenna holder, and action cam mounts are not included.

O4 Pro version: This version fits the stock DJI O4 Pro plastic housing only.

⚠️ CNC Kit owners: If you've converted your O4 Pro to standard form factor with our 7075 CNC Conversion Kit, you need the standard ERA 3.5" Frame Kit, not this one.

Motor mounting: 12x12mm (M2). Not compatible with 9x9mm motors.

Action cam: The frame supports action cams but adds significant weight at 3.5". For action cam use, we recommend our extended 4" arm set.


🇺🇸 US: Ships duties paid. Duties are added at checkout, nothing is due on delivery.

🌍 Non-EU: Price excludes VAT/tax. Import duties may apply.

The World Opens Up

A basketball hoop. On a 5-inch, you fly around it. At 3.5 inches, you fly through it. FPV feels different when you're this small and this durable. Every gap becomes a line. Every line becomes possible.

This is the O4 Pro Version. Same ERA Mini. Same durability. Built specifically for the DJI O4 Pro camera with stock plastic housing. The larger O4 Pro camera required a redesigned cage and extended bottom plate front. Everything else stays the same.

Full ERA, Compressed

This isn't a stripped-down mini version. It's the complete ERA design philosophy: proven camera protection, compressed X geometry, split deck construction. Scaled to 3.5 inches with zero compromises. Everything that made ERA work, tightened up.

The Cage: Why Injection-Molded Nylon?

The visual signature of the ERA is also its functional core. We don't use aluminum (too rigid) or 3D printing (too weak) for our camera protection. We invested in high-pressure injection molding because our testing proved it superior to every other method. 3D printing creates layers, microscopic weak points where cracks eventually start. Injection molding creates a solid, uniform polymer structure with equal strength in all directions.

Why nylon? It's the same polymer family used in downhill mountain bike pedals and high-end snowboard bindings. Parts that survive thousands of vibration cycles and high-velocity impacts without snapping. TPU is more elastic, carbon is stiffer and can chip on sharp impacts. Nylon sits in between: structural memory to take a hit and keep your camera exactly where you set it. It absorbs impact energy, flexes, and bounces back. It sacrifices itself so your electronics don't have to.

Beyond protection, this solid cage acts as a structural bridge. Combined with our split deck construction, the entire chassis becomes one unified, stiff block that withstands abuse.

The worst cage we've ever seen. One year of bashing by team pilot @scarce_fpv. Still functional.

Action Camera Mounting System

We fly 20°. That's why it's the stock angle. Five mounts available from 10° to 30° in 5° steps. One M3 screw out, swap the mount, done. The cage stays untouched.

Your FPV camera is separate and fully adjustable from 0° to roughly 40°.

The cage supports action cams, but at 3.5" the extra weight changes the flight characteristics significantly. If you want to fly with an action cam, we recommend our extended 4" arm set for better balance and more thrust.

Built Like a Shrunken 5-Inch

Around 300g AUW fully built. Light enough for precision, heavy enough for momentum. The compressed X geometry that made ERA responsive feels even tighter at this scale. Same authority, smaller package.

Bonus: With arms this short, zero props in frame on O4 Pro. Clean footage, every flight.

Hardware You'd Spec Yourself

We build what we fly. That means T700/T800 carbon mix. 12.9 hardened YFS screws that won't strip. 7075 aluminum standoffs that won't bend. 22mm deck height (up from ERA's 20mm) for easier installation without sacrificing rigidity.

Small detail that matters: TPU strap holder locks your battery straps in place between packs. No more loose straps slipping during swaps.

Construction

Arms lock into the frame with a form fit. No slop, no play. The bottom plate is under tension from the center screw, adding stiffness without weight.

Need to access your stack? Leave the camera attached. Four screws out, top plate off, full access. Nothing to realign when you're done.

Every cage is checked by hand. Heat inserts installed with specialized equipment. No batch leaves without personal QA.

Choose Your Version

  • ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit - Analog and DJI V1/O3/O4 Pro CNC Kit
  • ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit O4 - DJI O4 Pro with standard camera housing

The 3.5-Inch Standard

We didn't just build a frame. We worked with T-Motor and Gemfan to make 3.5-inch freestyle work the way 5-inch works.

it's 1604.5 3650KV Motor

Proven bell design with a brand new 3mm shaft. The scaled-down equivalent of a proper 5-inch motor. Lighter than 1604 designs with oversized shafts, more durable than T-mount alternatives. No C-clip. One small M2 screw to swap the bell. Prop swaps feel like 5-inch again.

Gemfan Bash 3.5

Purpose-built for this motor standard. Native 3mm bore, M3 nut, no adapter. Screw on, hex out, fly.

We hope other manufacturers adopt these specs so 3.5-inch freestyle becomes the standard it should have been from the start.

What's Different on the O4 Version

  • O4 Nylon Camera Cage: Redesigned for the larger DJI O4 Pro camera. Same injection molding process, same durability.
  • Extended Bottom Plate Front O4: Longer carbon plate to match the O4 cage dimensions.
  • Updated 3D Prints: O4 VTX Dual Antenna Holder, new TPU camera inserts.

What You're Getting

A frame that won't break in normal freestyle. Camera protection that actually protects. Hardware that won't strip, bend, or fail. A build experience that doesn't fight you. A quad that flies like it should.

Developed by pilots who crash, rebuild, and fly the next day. Every detail comes from real sessions, real crashes, real frustration with how things used to work.

 

 

What's in the box +

Every part available as a spare in our store.

Injection-molded

Carbon fiber

3D printed

All 3D printed parts available as free STL downloads on the product pages.

Hardware

Full screw list +

11x 8mm M3 Buttonhead 12.9

16x 7mm M2 Buttonhead 12.9

4x 20mm M3 Countersunk 12.9

4x 14mm M2 Countersunk 12.9

1x 22mm M3 Countersunk 12.9

5x M3 Pressnut

4x M3 Lock nut V2A

4x 18mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x 7mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x 6mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x 4mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x Lock nut M2 Aluminium

4x 9mm M1.6 Caphead 12.9

3x 6mm M2 Countersunk

Miscellaneous

 

 

Specs

What's inside.

Standoffs
7075 Aluminum
Frame geometry
Compressed X | 168mm wheelbase
Hardware
12.9 hardened steel
Prop clearance
Fits up to 3.6" props
Stack mounting
M2 25.5x25.5mm | M3/M2 20x20mm
Motor mounting
M2 12x12mm
Camera mounting
Up to 20x20mm
VTX mounting
20x20mm | 25.5x25.5mm

 

 

Frame

What makes ERA durable.

Carbon
T700/T800 | Up to 55% stronger than typical FPV frames
Camera cage
Injection-molded nylon | Impact absorbing
Battery straps
Nylon-kevlar | Won't snap on impact
LiPo pad
Super sticky | Keeps battery in place
Action camera angle
Fixed 20° (adjustable via mounts 10-30°) | One M3 screw
Bell protection
Three point motor bell protection
Skids
FDM printed | Protects arms on landing
Arm swap
One screw arm swap
Action cam swap
One screw action camera swap
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Vastly more compact

ERA Mini opens up a new library of flight spots that are physically inaccessible or too dangerous for a full-sized rig. At this scale, the physics of flight change in your favor. By dropping the hazardous weight and volume, you remove the 'threat factor.' This allows for stress-free proximity flying in sensitive areas where a full-sized rig would be a liability.

Yet, unlike lighter micros, ERA Mini retains enough mass to carry momentum through the air. It avoids the floaty feeling of smaller copters, offering the locked-in trajectory of a big rig, just condensed. Every gap becomes wider, and every line becomes possible.

Action Camera Mounts

Available separately for the nylon camera cage.

Available in 10-30° angles.

  • GoPro 9,10,11,12,13
  • GoPro 11 Mini
  • DJI Action 2
  • DJI Action 5 Pro
  • DJI Osmo Nano

If you have a 3D printer, you can download the mounts from the 3D Printed Hardware page for free.

Action Camera Mounts

Accessories

Need some extra chooch?

3D printed acessories available separately for the ERA frame, downloadable for free.

3D Prints

Assembly Guide

How to build ERA Mini?

Check out down below.

PDF Download

Customer Reviews

Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 94 reviews.

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

First quad after tinywhoops. This is the real deal. Feels super responsive and surprisingly accurate to feel in the Zone. Can't wait to fly more.

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Very good frame design but has some quality control issues and sub-standard parts. Basic things like cheap screws rather than stainless steel and mediocre 3D prints, especially for the VTX antenna let this frame down. Another one that had me scratching my head for a while is that the stand-offs are about 3mm too short (by design) making it hard to install a larger VTX, which is something you really want in a Bando Basher. Fortunately there are a large number of 3D prints made by owners publicly available and you can always buy better screws and stand-offs. I use a 6S battery and 2105.5 2650KV motors so it really kicks ass. The photos are the drone with stock parts only, my final build is much better.

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Mein 4. Era Frame und ich bin nach wie vor begeistert! Tolles Konzept und Mega Stabil!

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Great Frame. Already bought my second one. Fly’s great and is really durable.

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Very well made frame built like a tank We will see how it holds up long term ….

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

My first quad after a Tinywhoop. I can’t say more then that it was a very Nice build instructions were easy to follow, on the Discord if I had questions they get answered very quickly. I’m in love with this frame and I will definitely keep flying it! 😁

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Die Qualität des Frames ist richtig, gut. Deshalb hab ich mich auch für den Mini und den Großen entschieden 👍🏼

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Comme decrit livraison rapide bon vendeur super service merci a vous it fvp

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Tolles Frame! Fliegt auch schon mit Standard PIDs und den neuen 1604.5 Motoren mit den Gemfan Props super!

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Awesome frame, it was so much fun to build. Built to take a beating for sure.

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Sehr gute Qualität, Topp Flugverhalten, macht richtig Spaß und ist Mega robust. Motoren, Props, CNC Kit - alles verbaut wie empfohlen! FC + ESC sind HD Zero Halo. Bin voll zufrieden und besorg mit als nächstes die 5 Inch!

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Taking it out for it's maiden flight. Can't wait. Built like a little tank. The 04 pro camera looks really secure and safe

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Hi. Heute habe ich die gebaut mit den neuen It‘s 1604.5 Motoren und den passenden neuen Gemfan. Wenn die so fliegt wie die 5“ dann wird das geil. Ich freue mich auf den ersten Flug. Top Qualität wie immer. Gruß Henry

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Awesome frame. This thing is a rocket and it flys really smooth. Built with size 2006 2550kv motors powered by a 1350mah 6S.

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Good frame. But little hard to fit in the the flywoo stack and o4 vtx on the frame

ERA 3.5" Mini O4 Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

It looks very cute, but it’s extremely solid, and the TPU parts are finished really well. I absolutely love the design language of this kit. The way the antenna mount is placed at the rear is very smart. Using 3.5” props with 5mm shafts and a 12x12 motor mount made it a bit difficult for me to find suitable props and motors in my area. I’m a Vietnamese owner of this kit, and where I live, a lot of people really like it. Thank you for creating such a great kit!

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

It's my first ERA-Frame and I love it! The frame went together perfectly, and it's pure joy in the air. The camera cage is superb. This definitely won't be my last it'sFPV - frame! You did a great job!

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

Customer photo review of ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit

I'm in love with this frame. I took all of the parts from my old Oasisfly35 and gave them a new home on my ERA Mini and I couldn't be happier. It looks sick, is literally bulletproof, and flies amazing. Thanks it'sFPV for making this!!

ERA 3.5" Mini Frame Kit