And each time it is a more polished frame. This is really beautiful work. I am excited to see this fly!
Thanks!
And each time it is a more polished frame. This is really beautiful work. I am excited to see this fly!
that looks great in yellow. look forward to hearing how she flys. what do you use for your viewer, a monitor or goggles? i cringe when i see its 400.00 for some.. and i have no idea if id even like goggles over a monitor. but the only other option is the 30.00 diy job from hobbyking. but im not sure if that would work as well as the sharks. but im not gonna worry to much about fpv for now. soon tho, it is on my mind.
chris.
I only ask because I'm having one hell of a time getting a video setting that's worth a damn while flying. I have to constantly adjust the brightness/exposure settings each flight, and even then in the manual settings the brightness seems to change as the flight goes on. In auto mode the image is just too dark.
reminds me of the avatar copter for some reason.
I only ask because I'm having one hell of a time getting a video setting that's worth a damn while flying. I have to constantly adjust the brightness/exposure settings each flight, and even then in the manual settings the brightness seems to change as the flight goes on. In auto mode the image is just too dark.
Looks like you have your printer dialed in pretty good, and you're tri looks to be almost complete. I don't know how you've resisted the urge to wire up everything and take it for a test flight.
I do have a question on your printer though. I've noticed recently in Repetier that my infill isn't printing right both on the part and in the software. I have it set to 100% for a few parts but the infill is anything but 100%, more like 50%. If I go in the preview tab in Repetier the filament lines in the bottom layer all touch, but from layer 2 on up even at 100% the lines don't touch and it shows in the print. This is only on .2mm layer height, if I change the layer height to .3mm it fixes the problem both in the print and Repetier. This makes me believe it's a setting somewhere I changed, but I can't seem to figure out which one it was. Does anyone have an idea?
First pass at the upper plate for the FPV Pod. Overall I am happy with the shape of everything but I cannot leave things alone, so this is going to change at least one more time to inprove how it is fastened and also add some mounting provisions for some of the electronics.
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I am waiting on ESC's to arrive before any of the wiring begins.
I definitely want to add some creative cutouts on this part, but I wanted to print it out so I could play with some of the component placements in real life and figure out how I want to fasten everything. Some things are easier to see with parts in hand, and I am too lazy to model every component in Inventor Fusion.I don't think I would have been able to refrain from making that top plate like a pyramid.
Those are good ideas, and I am considering a very similar approach, but not because of vibration concerns. The three blue dampers will mitigate vibration issues, and you cannot see it in the pictures, but there are posts and fasteners behind the camera which connect the upper and lower pieces together. If I add more supports to the front, the main purpose will be to provide additional protection for the camera in crashes.View attachment 42022
if you get vibration in the camera do you think you will have two add braces like i did in yellow? id probably use the spacers like other frame use instead of printing plastic that may break being so thin ( well you could make it thicker than i originally thought now i see the thickness available to mount some kind of gusset if needed, so a printed part should work assuming you even need it. or do you think it will be fine with out.
i really do not know the material you are working with so i do not know how stiff it is.
chris.
I definitely want to add some creative cutouts on this part, but I wanted to print it out so I could play with some of the component placements in real life and figure out how I want to fasten everything. Some things are easier to see with parts in hand, and I am too lazy to model every component in Inventor Fusion.
It will definitely need some slots for zipties and what not.
It's probably going to be about 2-3 weeks before the files are ready for Thingiverse. I won't be able to work on it this weekend unfortunately, which will delay things.