1 month before, after my Shenzen,China trip, i found out that there is a way to make a drone plane for a very low cost to make it achievable by everyone. After a little bit search on internet, it is clear that people love Raspberry Pi. there are a lot of project on DIY Drone blog with a drone raspberry Pi attached.I decided to make a low cost autonomous airplane that everybody can write code and make applications without spending a lot of money on prototyping, etc.
And i would like to give a brief introduction about my project Dronee.
Low cost (200-300 $), open-source,open-design (3d printable as well), and Raspberry Pi2 inside for 3rd party applications. for image processing, etc
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Airframe has light weigh durable advanced structure that can be printable from SLS ,high precision printers, but it is not cost efficient because i checked the price from Shapeways &materialise it is around 1000$ . I am ging to build from molded EPP or EPO, i will test both.
I havent finished working prototype yet, but i am working hard to show working prototype untill end of july.
Purpose of publishing here in DIY Drone, i want to share my project with the people who love drones , who work with drones,and how are interested in drones, And i want to get valuable feedback to improve the dronee to make it better
All your ideas (positive or negative) are valuable for me.
Thanks in advance.
and dont forget the follow ~(https://www.facebook.com/dronees) )
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MarioSpeedwagon
This could be awesome to test this 3d printed transmitters on Dronee. printing radar, transmitter antenna over airplane surface will be awesome.. and i am able to provide required documents, modifications on frame to test on Dronee.
MarioSpeedwagonrd
They are using FDM technology.Dronee has complex structure inside the wing , that makes it hard to print on FDM printers. also wall thickness is 0.7 mm that is hard to print from FDM printers.. but anyway.. when i share the design. i will let you know. maybe they can print)
Hi Mauricio,
thanks to worn, i will keep in mind.
I am about to finish balsa-plywood prototype, I didnt forget the model airplane lovers too. I will share the dxf file for laser cutting model from plywood , balsa .
I have no idea what they are using, and I've never even seen a 3d printer running.
http://www.protoparadigm.com/
and
http://functionalize.com/
Hi MarioSpeedwagon
it is very valuable offer for me. i will make design Open,after to prove the the concept with flight video. which will take around 1 month, maybe less than that. Built in printed wiring sounds awesome.. are they using SLS 3d printers? c Do they have website? with that 3d printed wiring technology even it is possible to embedded antenna on the bottom surface of wing
careful! you don't want to have the CG too low in a flying wing... Better make some cheap quick prototype before and test, even before sepnding time on computer design. Flying wings suck for mappping, and even worst if CG is too low...
One of our volunteer firefighters works for a local company that manufacturers filament for 3d printing. I went in to meet him to ask about having some parts printed, and ended up talking to him and his business partner (who is just starting to use conductive filament) about printing some drones to test. They are interested because it would be a great example for their conductive filament, and I am interested because there is no cost for me, except the equipment I'll put on it to test.
If you are willing to share your print files, I would love to pass it on to them and get them working on designing the printed wiring.
Rainer K. nice work.
the habebert designed airfoil on Dronee shows higher lift/drag ration than mh, and other flyingwing airfoils. at dronee requirements.
the design is good. No aerodynamically perfect. You should use a flying wing profile. MH or Naca.
this Wings we have developed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdN9jA6rUHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_u-lX0mg0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVOC8AigXg
soon we will fly the K-Wing with APM mini
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