You may have seen this guy's stunning UAV design work before. They were just renders initially, but now he's started 3D printing them, too. I wish I had more details, but his contact page says "Performing military service now. I will reply to the mail as soon as possible. I've asked nevertheless and will let you know if I hear back.
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Talk about false advertising. The rendered images have no relationship to what the actual DJI frames look like. In NA, they would get sued senseless.
Very nice model...and it seems the www.jurmol.com site is for conceptual models.
Not too outlandlish than some of www.rqriley.com lines though he was doing it 35 years before computers were around.
Shops and designers like the Jurmol site will should be the inspirations for todays kids who would be the engineers and builders (makers) of tomorrow.
Nice ideas, nice drawings, nice models.
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I don't think this design was 3D printed. The parts don't have the characteristic layer lines of a 3D printer, unless it was done with an SLS printer, which doesn't doe ABS, and therefore not really suitable for airframes.
Some of the parts would not print properly, with too much overhang, unless he's gluing parts together. I'm a little leery.
However, it is a neat design, and gives me ideas on refining my design. :-)
Beautiful Mind !
Irrespective of whether its a truly functional design, or is one but cannot be realised yet, it is indeed a very inspirational design... and that's really what industrial design is about. Concept cars never make it to production, but ideas conceived and developed throughout the process and iterations of developing concept cars do, in part, make it into our every-day vehicles.
What I like about the easy access to equipment like 3D Printing, open source CAD/modelling software, etc., is that we'll start to see (and are seeing) the possibilities of having hundreds of thousands of people proposing ideas, formulating designs and producing artefacts for their concepts. Sure, it's likely to end up like the App Store, wherein only a very small proporotion of these products are profitable... however, there are jewels in the crowd or garbage and its these that inspire others to try harder in their own work. That's the true value of the work presented here, at least as far as I see it.
Gorgeous indeed, but functional? I think it has too many technical issues. I think variable pitch is the way to go for sure, but the high performance servos needed to control pitch are current hogs. High speed gimbal, capsule release system, dampening landing gear that look as if they should retract? I want to see video of something working. Outside of that it mind as well be just a rendering. Cool concept designs are not so much a challenge as actually building something that works.
May be little bit off-topic, any guesses on the software he used to design/render this?
Do aerodynamics really play a big part in a platform meant for fixed observation? Seems to have a pretty large cross profile. As for the shocks; in a hard landing, compression would crush that bottom module, and the added weight is a detractor from performance, no? The camera position is poor, IMHO, preventing unrestricted 360 panning from a fixed platform position. The gimbals proportions(ping-pong ball sized), seem unrealistic for any realistic imaging payload. Lastly, the variable pitch rotors are purely whimsical. Eye candy, for sure, but practical? Me thinks not.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about great aesthetics. Just seems like a lot of extra bits to fix & haul around. good fodder for discussion, however.
Patch, well from what I see, the fuselage is much more aerodynamic than other designs. Shock absorbers on the legs, the camera is a great position. The shroud for the motors is nice. The arm design isn't great, but doesn't look at bad as DJI's plastic arm on the S800 and F450.
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