Quadrotor on Bald Engineer

Prototyping quadrotor arm mounts with MakerBot Replicator 2

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:45:27 +0000

While practicing the Quadrotor’s motor mounts on a Shopbot gave me experience in how to register two sides for milling, I didn’t want to invest the time required for the arm mounts. So I decided to make use of the MakerBot Replicator 2 to print physical samples in PLA. Time per piece went from about an hour to about 15 minutes. This is the first time I used the Makerware software, which looks to be a much prettier version of ReplicatorG. The workflow for using the software is a little bit more straight forward than ReplicatorG. For example, a single “Make” button generates the Gcode and Scd Files

Custom Made Quadrotor - Overview

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:06:55 +0000

Status: Active, In Progress (Updated: 4/18/2013) Abstract Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiyc/sets/72157633185131473/with/8653034709/ This Quadrotor project is a collaborative effort between Mike Kurdziel and I. The unique twist on this collaboration is that he is located in Menlo Park, CA and I am in Austin, TX. We’re collaborating remotely while doing most of work on the TechShop locations in each of our towns. Our Quadrotor is desgined from scratch. All major components have been adapted from other sources but, otherwise, designed by us for this project. We have no flight experience and neither of us has ever attempted a project on this scale before.

Building a custom Quadcopter from scratch

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:36:51 +0000

A couple of years ago I started looking at what it would take to make a quadcopter. At the time, I only had the limited tools at the Austin hackerspace available to me (which I don’t think even has a space anymore). So I shelved the idea since I didn’t see a time effective way to make any of the components. Fast forward to a few months ago when I joined the TechShop in Austin. Now I have no excuses to not make a custom Quadrotor.