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CAD Drones Design Challenge Contest Giveaway!

What's up Diy Drones?! It's Joshua Johnson from CAD Drones with a Gimbal Design Contest for all you CAD and Drone Junkies! To View the CAD Challenge page you can visit: http://caddrones.com/cad-challenge

CAD CHALLENGE CONTEST RULES AND INFO:

Submit all Contest Gimbal Designs to the DataBase under the category CAD Challenge Submissions
Your design must use/fit servos with the Dimension: 40.6 x 19.8 x 37.8 mm
The Gimbal Contest Design File Submissions must be in .stl form
All Designs must be submitted by February 14th
Whom ever makes the best design will win 4 1000 kv out runner brush less motors and receive a special prize that will be made "Public Information" closer to the end of the contest
It must NOT exceed 130mm square
Your submission(s) can NOT be a modified version of any open license, or paid license design. It must be original!

CHALLENGE SPONSORED BY SENCORP

**We are looking for strong/robust designs!**

Take it easy Diy Drones,

Joshua Johnson

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Joshua Johnson February 7, 2014 at 11:18pm

Sencorp.net

http://Sencorp.net/
Joshua Johnson February 7, 2014 at 11:14pm

They are a company in the UK that is just getting their feet off the ground. Their website should be love soon. I'll message them right now and see if the site is online yet.
Reuben February 7, 2014 at 10:54pm

Who Is Sencorp ?? Googled them and they dont seem to exist ??
Joshua Johnson January 22, 2014 at 10:47pm

Do you have any knowledge in that type of coding?
Joshua Johnson January 22, 2014 at 10:47pm

I completely agree Marius. Ning is offering some specialized features and packages that might accommodate our needs here. If not though we are looking into creating a custom code to have a thingiverse like experience. We are hoping to find people knowledgeable in building code like that to contribute and donate their time until we can establish a payed position to hire a website developer for more complex coding.
Marius van Rijnsoever January 22, 2014 at 10:43pm

Hi Joshua,

With regards to caddrones having a "database" of design files, unfortunately a ning discussion list won't be very practical. Even with the current 7 entries is is extremely hard browsing the entries and finding out what is what. Let alone if you get 100+ entries.

Ideally one would create custom code to have a "thingiverse" like experience.

Thanks, Marius
Joshua Johnson January 22, 2014 at 9:34pm

Feel free to upload your submission under a different file type for now and if we figure out the issue we can always switch the file in your submission easily. The sponsors will be excited to check it out and if all else fails you will be able to email submit the file type we need while still having your submission showing a different acceptable file type.
Joshua Johnson January 22, 2014 at 9:24pm

Hi Quad - I'm sorry to hear you are having issues uploading the file. Let me see if I can figure out the issue. In the meantime if all else fails you can email me the file or upload the file under an acceptable file type.

So sorry for the inconvenience I'll keep you posted if I figure out the issue. Please keep me posted as well if figure out it is something other then it not exporting properly. That is where I will focus my efforts right now to try to figure out.

Joshua Johnson
Quadzimodo January 22, 2014 at 9:16pm

JJ - I can export stl files from sketchup however I cannot open them again to check to see what I have exported. Also, when I export I get the following message (which leads me to believe that it is not exporting properly):
Joshua Johnson January 19, 2014 at 11:31am

Hi Quadzimodo,

We are judging on how well it functions, robustness, and overall quality of the Design! We are going to print out the best designs to test for judging.

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