Recent content by Andrew Schmidt

Progress halted a bit. The more I thought about the design, this thing is going to be a nightmare to transport anywhere without the high risk of breaking something. Instead I designed a foldable design similar to the Mavic, but with the 350-400mm frame size when unfolded. Currently fixing my...

Revised transform mechanics, printing more abs.

So with a hope and a prayer, I might be able to test fly next week. Probably not with successful landing gear transforms.... but still, a start. Here's my to-do list for the next 7 days, if I really want to fly over Easter weekend (we have a waterski tournament, so yeah, I wanna film it.) 1.)...

UPDATE!! Not huge but definitely getting there. So I've hashed out my plans for the landing gear motor, but have never done my own entire bit of code on arduino, so that should be fun. Planning to start testing this later tonight. Schematic below, let me know what you think. Also, finally...

Light update for you guys, Got the printer limping again.... until parts come in tomorrow. Heres what it made last night! (it's the nose without a hole in the end!) Currently printing canopy top updated part.

Oh crap... those calculation numbers are off.... i neglected the amount of caffeine consumed and the amount of times i had to fix my printers.... lol lets just say closer to $850. I've got easily 100-150 hours in modeling this project.

Also, just for spits and giggles, I got my printer kinda working with a stripped out knock off hot-end. Somehow it has miraculously chugged through an 8 hour abs print. So we are kinda-sorta back and rolling coal! I also recently became a 3d Hubs partner, so if anyone needs something printed...

@jayinsc Mostly just plastic haha. I've gone through about 3 rolls of PLA @ $20 a piece, and then probably lost about $100 on defective solo parts off of ebay. Should have just gone the new solo route from the beginning. T-motor 3510's were $45/piece x 4 DJI Inspire props $6 a pack x 2 DJI...

Well guys, its gonna be a few days before I am printing again.... managed to destroy two hot ends over the weekend. 1 authentic v6 due to the giant messy clog. and a china knock off that I tried to mock up in its place in the Titan extruder. Looks like i wont be making anymore parts until the v6...

So after quite a bit of struggle, My printer is up and running again. Its amazing how fast you can jam up a well running machine with improperly labeled filament. Worksteel's PLA filament is very VERY temperature sensitive and will actually begin to jam even the best assembled v6/titan combo if...

OKAY, now we are cooking! I finally started getting a realistic mock-up of how this design is going to pan out towards the end of last week. After multiple revisions, and two more killed rolls of PLA. I've Got something I am cool with moving forward with. Currently trying to print the ABS...

Nice Andy, I know the one guy was asking about performance in your comments, did you notice a top speed increase? Or would this be something you would be willing to test? I know stock solo Almost hit 35 on a calm day.

Also, I am going to try and print Vlad's arm joints instead of the Blackbox RC arm joints...... the blackbox ones are clunky as hell.

Also here's another update! I finally got the structural plan for the main chassis figured out in a manner that allows for the 3DR Solo main board to be accessible without being annoying. I chose to create an underslung style mounting plate that doubles as structural reinforcement. This coupled...

Awesome Andru. How much longer overall was your increase in flight time with the larger props/motors and dual battery setup? And also, did you need an arduino to setup the retractable landing gear? if so, what pins did you tap into? that is my current struggle, figuring out which pins to wire my...