Flying a DIY 3D Printed Quadcopter... Will it work?

Petg instead of pla

Can you make some videos showing the CAD process?
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have you tried LW-PLA? might improve flight characteristics drastically by trimming some of the fat in the plastic you're using

Make fpv, li-ion battery, save some weight, or maybe ardupilot for self flying. Delivery drone whit servos are great too

I used old CAD programs in high school like Rhino and some older programs. What would be a inexpensive good quality entry level 3d printer with a fairly decent size print area so not limited to making 10000 parts or micro devices?

The figure for a safe landing, and you are amazing

I have and idea for the motors too!, what if you add the magnetic flux path back into the motor. my guess is just some metal strips, maybe one with a curved end to match the profile of the rotor magnets? (thick enough to withstand the g force?)

Printing with PETG would also withstand 41% higher tempature, before suffering from flex and deformation (PETG: 85c max vs PLA: 60c max)

My best guess, is this would DRAMATICLY increase the motors output efficiency (more power, more torque, etc.), the motors could be downsize as it will make way more torque then, maybe just enough to offset, metal strips, and maybe overall, lower the weight significantly! I'd love to see this tested!

fans do make it look cooler 😁

You should add some guards on the propers so if it bumps into anything it won’t break

You would love The Smugglers Room Channel.

Please, please do some dyno-tests for your motors, like Christoph Laimer did !!! I have great interest on how far results deviate from builder to builder, efficiency-wise...

as someone that builds and flies quads: Larger props (get them as close to touching as you can without actually touching), swap to a flight controller built for X-Class (dont worry you can still use your extra bits and bobs, and likely get better use out of them), and yes 100% get some FPV on that bad boiii. Dont print props. Others have had this idea and found out the hard way why nobody actually does it.

great, thanks for sharing 👍

FPW

MPU6050 tend to drift a lot. probably wont be that accurate. I suggest upgrading to BNO080/BNO085. It's by Adafruit if I'm not mistaken.

Upload files to create this,.please

You gotta make it do a flip

That quad need a 30,000 mah battery... for good flight time. Otherwise you need to use a hydrogen fuel cell, or better yet a liquid hydrogen fuel cell.

Try carbon fiber next time, less vibration.

Your motors don't have enough holes for cooling. You got big motors and they need to be cooled. Big motors need to be cooled.

Can you flip it, dip it, and dive it in Acro mode?

Whatever...... I am still a skeptic....

How much where the motors? What's the voltage, 6S 8S 12s? How much was the ESC? What type of flight controller is on it?

First time watching this channel. Cool quadcopter. It seems like you are designing it around your diy motors which are a bit heavy. Is that the case? If so it seems refining your design would mean creating more efficient motors that are lighter. Adding more batteries = more weight. Gonna have some diminishing returns I think.

Not sure if you know, maybe try printing the motor's stator core which has iron in the filament, makes it more efficient.

When they say "what could possibly go wrong" you know something's gonna go wrong

Hi Michael, gret project and videos indeed. I have a question, I was wondering if you have any video/tutorial about the flying controller that you built for this drone...?

You should try toroidal props

i just realized i can print a pi game holder

Love the build. Would a toroidal propeller work? 3 months ago that’s all that was shown on most of the new videos 😅

Old technics, the banggood has it much better

Add cargo space and a winch to it.

Badass!

Can i have the design of the body 3d print because i have project for my school, i want to make drone from 3d print

you might want to reduce the infill

Dude made his own brushless motors, WOW!

How do you learn how to make things like this? I love making things but struggle to know where to source parts or even how to use them. I apsire to be an automotive engineer but I'm having trouble engineering things that I can even begin to work on.

What about trying to make it wired where a wire comes underneath to power it? You can run it on hayes winding School

Ruthex makes the same inserts

Que interesante. Que tal si pasas a motores axiales, más livianos de mayor potencia. Usar software hardware que se encargue por si mismo de la estabilización giroscópica automáticamente, para no tener que estar corrigiendo el plano de vuelo.

Print orientation influences the strength of the print. And wow, that even looks heavy. The key to engineering is to use the correct material for the intended purpose. This could in fact be stronger with a simple shell construction and 5-10% infill. The outer shell is what provides most of the strength. You can achieve 3 to 1 or even 4 to 1 trust to weight ratio with better design.

Amazing work

Waiting for you to replace the magnets in the motors with magnetic filament, and the wiring with conductive filament.

By looking at so much weight and power consumption.... It's not worth it.

SPEND MONEY= QUALITY

it is necessary to replace the wheels, disks of a larger diameter and with a minimum of flat rubber so that during rotation they do not narrow and reduce contact with the asphalt at high speed, for this reason, at the end of the video, the car lost traction and flew away

yo send the 3d print diagram i wasnt to print it as well and build one please

Change your infill. Gyroid or cubic would be way better than just grid. Increase your temperature just a couple degrees for better layer adhesion and keep your layer height over 0.2mm.
You could easily print the bigger pieces with gyroid and 10% infill and save a ton of weight. For smaller pieces and stronger pieces cubic.

In thrust we trust.
ft. Jhony Sins ( famous aeronautical engineer )

woah, this is extremely entertaining and fun to watch. It's the first time i've seen someone be this creative with a Quadcopter.