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Dual Extrusion

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I just upgraded my printer to a dual extruder, with the ultimate goal of printing vibration-isolating mounts with a combination of ABS and ninjaflex.  Apparently ninjaflex adheres to ABS well.   The photo above is my first dual extruder project -- it

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APM 2.5 case

I posted this under APM 2.x hardware but was helpfully directed here - a much more appropriate place for it.

Along with the case are printed dipole antenna tower, GPS and sonar mounts.

I uploaded the .stl file for the housing on thingiverse: www.thingi

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Using Blender for parts

Hi, I'm new to the idea of 3D in general but I see it's power.  I've been playing with Blender 2.6 and know just a little and not enough yet.  Anyway, I want to print airfoils and a spar to hold them.  I took an airfoil from Xfoil and used it as a ba

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My Latest 3D Printed Hexa Flyer

Hi Folks,

Here are some pictures of my almost completed Tri/Hexacopter.

To work around the size limitations, I've made the arms in pieces.  They are now actually extendable.  The truss design means that they are very stiff, especially in the vertical a

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