Gender
Male
About
Location
Oakland, CA
About Me:
I work in aerospace building electric vtol airplanes... sorta a large UAV or a MAV. I'm always building things and specialize in making molds, creating prototypes and using carbon fiber aerospace techniques.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm interested in this area because I've always wanted to mess with RC stuff and now Can. I'm more interested in the builds and would like to contribute to the advancement of the field while having fun and learning. Possibly moving toward my own business.
Hometown:
Oakland, CA
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"So is your project a hardware or software (or both) play?
any more details?"
any more details?"
"I know in LA there was an inventors group that would have regular meetings. Everyone in the group was an inventor and thus understood the importance of protecting IP. To be in the group everyone had to sign an NDA. I think that would be helpful…"
"I completely feel your pain... I'm sorta in the same boat. I think I have some good design ideas that others might find useful but also might be stolen or implemented before I do. It kinda sucks cause that means that I'm working in secret all the…"
"So what are you asking?
We use either composite molds or molds machined from tooling foam. The tooling foam is relatively cheap compared to aluminum or carbon fiber but, the foam has a bit higher CTE. The last uav mold I made was from this foam…"
We use either composite molds or molds machined from tooling foam. The tooling foam is relatively cheap compared to aluminum or carbon fiber but, the foam has a bit higher CTE. The last uav mold I made was from this foam…"
"Carbon can have interference effects... I just drill a hole in my frame and then have the antenna hand out the bottom so I have no possibilities of any problems. Though people do say this about carbon... I'm not sure about how thick the carbon…"
