Let’s design a multirotor together.
- 1 month later...
I have been flying. Yes. This is from this past January. Maybe I'll post something else soon...
Here's from a few days ago:
The new gopro 4 session would be a good little camera for a quad
http://shop.gopro.com/APAC/cameras/hero4-session/CHDHS-101-master.html
- 2 months later...
Well, I've finally found some time to work on the drone again... to design the outside of the drone... I guess it's finished, if you guys don't have any remarks that is.
A few suggestions:
'it's way too tight, create some space to fit stuff in!'
'The legs are too small, you'll snap those off!'
'And my first proper investigation: Move the motors higher up, you'll sink!'
Somewhere next week the gnarly job of subdividing it into 3D-printable parts starts. That means choosing printing orientations, bottom planes, hollowing the parts out, creating mounts, etc, etc. Lots of work, but it's great to make some progress again. How's it going with you guys? Any new designs? crashed drones? Working on other stuff?
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- 4 months later...
Woah! How is everyone's 3D printed flying creations going? Its been a while since there has been any activity in here! I have been working on some new frames and concepts from some inspiration drawn from the new star wars movie!
I was thinking about starting some youtube live streams for modeling training and tips when designing for nice prints. That way you guys can ask questions and help design our next ultimaker multi-rotors! I have some nice streaming hardware coming in the mail and would love to contribute some training in modeling. Let me know what you think or would like to see!
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I watched the Hak5 show and enjoyed it, cool technology stuff.
I am interested in following the progress here, especially if it leads to a new and interesting quad design. Maybe I can help a bit too? We will see, but in any case it looks worth following!
Les
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Well I spent time looking at the wiring carefully. I didn't know this when I bought all the parts but my copter hovers at around 20 Amps draw on the battery (includes all current - even camera gimbals). Of course it draws much more when I give it full power but on average it should use 20A. Obviously now I could have gone with 10 or 20A ESCs instead of 30A saving much weight. If this wiring is good enough for 30A ESC then obviously I can reduce the wiring weight by quite a bit. Immediately after a 10 minute flight my ESCs are hardly warm. Motors are hot though.
The battery came with 10AWG, the power module came with 12 AWG, I added the next section (tree branching section). The ESC came with 16 AWG both sides. The numbers below are the average current draw. 4 tree leafs (power leads) go to ESCs and the 5th goes to the gimbal controller. This just shows one side - this is duplicated for red/positive and black/negative wiring.
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