Today I officially shifted gears, now one year later after proposing it to the rest of my business colleagues, on how I was focusing our pet brand Digi-DNA, created from the evolution and adaptation of technology specific for aerospace manufacturing locally here in Charleston, South Carolina. This began over 4 years ago. Boeing placed a dreamliner plant in my backyard so to speak and changed the environment to say the least. Prior Project partners Verizon and LG we hope to engage now in the RPV markets as well. Finally following some ambitious dreams of aviation to which I could feasibly have full control of raw materials such as prepreg carbon fiber to full manufacturing and assembly of finished RTF products. All within a 15 min reach of my main office location, and for this I am quite excited.
| The Rosetta lander inspired me, more to really commit, I feel I am harnessing some of the ingenious nature maybe inferred from this man, Edwin Link, I feel it was no coincidence that shared the same bedroom for the same adolescent year almost exactly 70 years later. I guess it just has taken me a while to start really chasing my dreams. I a former nationally ranked alpine skier have a significant competitive nature and which my siblings being very successful in there own fields, one in childrens toys and the other in automotive, I have felt it necessary to step up my efforts and finally figure out what my intrinsic purpose is on this planet.
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Recently I decided to challenge myself to a personal goal to deign and develop and produce at volume a completely new design RPV, in the same time it would take DJI to with the Inspire, (they were successful, they inspired me) from when I heard about the pending announcement at the beginning of the month to the time that stock levels at their listed dealer list are reached. I really have no hard way to gauge this however I have a personal goal of 30 days start to finish, all at price points better than DJI and available before the holidays. I look at it as my own personal X type prize challenge, and so far I can say I have already been rewarded, or at least promised significant reward for pulling off that feat, then again if I hit anywhere close to my target the reward may then turn exponential. More on this project can be monitored at this thread but announced on diydrones.com as the pilot viper, with limited information. It is all me so only so many hours in the day and I need to make this better than a inspire with the same specs or documented exceed in capabilities while roughly half the price, it is time for some american engineering and production speed akin to the space race under Kenedy, (or at least it is in my own head, I tend to have quite a imagination).So my name may be the Pilot Viper but I hope that I can say one day that maybe this is the DIY we did it better kind of thing. Many of the plans I will be pushing back to the community once complete with opensource steams if you will, so I can try not and fracture my core product, too much then at the same time focusing on. I also recently reached out to Randy about a few comments I want to provide to team of Jedi that mange the source code and do a majority of development.
repeat picture the frame, from a week ago
I am ready for new pictures also;
ETTS LLC, stand for Extra Terrestrial Technology Systems LLC. and the brand and registered trademark or Digi-DNA is a personal project that has found reemergence through the help and direction of the DIYdrones.com community, 3drobotics and all of the individuals that I have delt with to date. Early on they operated at a level of business acumen I felt I could only see benefit. This foray has been done DIY style with a shoestring budget and I have nothing but gratitude for all that I have engage in the multi-rotor community at large.The cooperation I have experienced to date has truly been remarkable and glad I have found many like minds so far that see the opportunity is of abundance especially when the opensource community teams to create an overload of technology and innovation! I then have had the grace of working with Roberto Navoni at VR robotics and between him and John at 3dr I could not ask for better contact or partner for my OEM relationships. This was also resonated when finding Lucien at Innov8tive, and I feel lucky to have met each and every one to date.
To mark the new commitment and focus, I have reached out to my close friend and business partner for many years Ron Bush shown here is a very touch and cheek segment, much like the name of our company, spoofing the very well known movie scarface.
To now help me try and turn this up to 11 (spinal tap) glad to have the help on this now as up till now this has been pretty much a solo gig with just a few helping hands, glad to see the growth, and excited about the challenge or personaly X prize I have set for my self, thank you DJI Inspire, Thank you 3d Robotics, Thank you DIYdrones.com I have set my marching orders, now hopefully I can catch some of that comet dust of sucess now falling from the Rosetta lander.
I welcome all that wish to collaborate with us to reach out, and I may even reach out to you as I only see partnership with innovation as truly the method for success. The Rosetta lander shows this well and could only hope to capture a thread of that type of unbridled collaboration crossing the globe. Below is an example of Ron Bush's work who is now writing a few in a series of Drone or UAV shorts aimed at hopefully debunking myths about the technology (maybe Mythbusters reference yesterday at the DJI Inspire launch?) and helping to pave the road for hopefully our technology and continued success while also helping the community at large.
Hooker turf wars - watch more funny videos 
11, 12, 13, 14... we have lift off...
Above is another short Ron and Jenea did called Turf Wars, I am excited to see how they attack some of the drone hot button issues.. This was kinda a core dump based on the wave of excitement from the lander yesterday, if I made error let me know I am not all that proud and make lots of mistakes and look forward to in and all valuable comments.
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I have retracts designed and have cut several different just not quite happy with the mechanism, hopping to lock many parts together using magnets, we will see,,, if not I have something already to meet the goal, just want it to be really innovative...
very cool, im curiouse to your landing gear, your rendering does not show it- or maybe it does and im not seeing it. Looking forward to your product!
Thank you for the support!
Gary, the props in the model are just for placement and that image is the result of me grabbing what thought was a random UAV or Drone thought to be representative pulled from creative commons, then being a violation of TOS due to the content of it being a military drone, somehow these days in my eyes the lines are quite blurred, and apologized for the oversight to TCIII, and glad he has been there to help me along also.
have been hard at it though and feel that my aircraft and other iso9000 methods, part traceability will give me a edge I hope. It is also nice to be able to walk the production line in the after noon if I need to hand carry a new proto to fruition faster.
The shown props I have with much greater clearance than you state and apologize for the rushed photo, however as luck would have it, I was able to get also the proper numbers for the time of this particular post also, saw it as a weird opportunity once I had to redo it for resubmission, so I geeked out a bit going for all numbers of 01234, thought it was kinda cool.
The arms do telescope, and I have some more tilt rotor assemblies that I am making out of UHMW for the booms also.
Did a few different things with the assembly also, for example the FC and center section which I have not had time to render off is on a trapeze or sorts. This is held by monofilament line post tensioned to a level best to mitigate transient vibration through the pultruded CF tubes.
The arms and I will release pictures of the assemblies as ready with a few that I will provide the solid model for if someone is so inclined to make there own.
Gary all you comments I agree with and hope to further explore stream tube, and other theories that I ponder. Rob L. is really the one who I began much study of the effects and then the physics involved on different scale relative to gauge transfer of energy from motor and its surroundings and how those motors are used to both increase performance while in neutral states perform as efficiently as possible.
Looks great,
A small point, but your props in the top main drawing overlap in mechanical interference.
Obviously this is just a"very nice" rendering, and I am sure you have no intention to let that happen in reality.
But, I have some recent experience with prop tips with 1/8" clearance using 14" props and it produces excess Z axis vibration especially on application of throttle.
Situation seems very much to result from interaction of the 2 vortices produced by the props interfering with each other especially during asynchronous coincidence of the prop tips.
(You can hear it too).
Substituting 13" props and resulting 1 1/8" clearance there is no problem and my Hoverthings FLIP FPV Pro G with extended arms is very smooth and low vibration under all conditions.
I would imagine this problem is increased with the coaxial props on an X8 and so you might need even more tip to tip clearance.
There is data that supports that thrust is not severely compromised with up to 25% prop tip overlap, but my experience is that vibration (and resulting control issues) worsen considerably due to the asynchronous interaction of the prop blades themselves.
This information is anecdotal, but is consistent with my results with my copter.
Hope it does you some good.
Best regards,
Gary
The best of luck to you - I am moving in a similar direction, and it's going to be a challenge, but I think it'll be worth it - I hope you find that it is too!