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

Replicator 2 on Bald Engineer

Prototyping quadrotor arm mounts with MakerBot Replicator 2