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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Ok. Like the rendering more than DJIs phantom ...
pictures of the DJI
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.
nevermind I see it. interesting
@R_Lefebvre do you have a url for this DJI? I don't see it anywhere.
Looks great, but does form meet function? Or is this just a demonstration of aesthetic/creative abilities? There doesn't seem to be any significant engineering that warrants a technical advantage, over a simple tube-frame design, IMHO. Nice concept to execution, but beyond pretty, what does it offer?
Jason, I think I agree with what you're saying. But the point of my comment is that this is a refreshing change of multirotor design. It's not "a bunch of sticks, plates and bolts in bag" design. I've been waiting for MR's to get enough volume to start doing some real production designs that look good.
DJI has recently released the Phantom, which probably the first full scale production MR that isn't stick and plate. It's a nice looking design. Very bland however. Looks like Apple designed it.
What this guy has done is actually very attractive.
Often industrial design leads to making everything so generic to make it more marketable for a larger general audience... however with 3D printing it's quite the opposite.
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