After my quad flew itself into the side of my workshop and destroying itself, I decided to go with a hex after having bearing issues with my motors and having a motor lock up in flight. With a hex at least I have a bit more redundancy. My design I am hoping will look quite rugged and enclosed as the Colorado dust gets into everything at a low altitude. So I began the design with the main frame plates and I will go from there as they are the "backbone" to the platform. Here are a couple of pictures of them being machined on my CNC mill. I also have a 3-d printer and use it's prints for castings, I am thinking of printing a pattern for the outriggers to cast in aluminum, I have to weigh in the weight cost though.
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I basically designed this frame myself. I wanted it to be able to fit in a 6" piece of tubing for an outer shell. If I choose to go that route. I can send you the g-code if you would like.
Thanks,
-Brian
Brian, this is really great work. Way to go on the CNC milling. I have a CNC mill myself based on the ShapeOko design and really want to mill my own quad or hexa frame. Where did you get the design for this frame?? I have tried to find a CNC-friendly frame design but have not been able to. I would make my own but I don't think I understand enough about quads or hexas to do a good job yet.
Any info would be appreciated.
bad material for copter
Pretty! Looking forward to seeing the rest of it.
Sounds like we need a front range multicopter meetup at some point :-)
I plan on going to the SparkFun autonomous vehicle competition in June as well.
Boulder here. I know the local hackerspace would love to see this in person. We're almost done converting our mill to CNC.
I was about to ask the same thing. I'm in the Colorado Springs area.
This is looking sweet! Where in Colorado are you?