3D Printed Micro H-Quadcopter

This is a brief overview of my latest micro quadcopter build with some flight footage as well. The frame for this quadcopter is 3D printed from ABS plastic and is based on a design I made in Autodesk Inventor. For more information about this quadcopter, please visit my site where I have complete build log as well as a comprehensive parts list:

http://www.rctutor.org/3d-printed-mic...

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me or leave a comment below. Hope you enjoy!

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  Science & Technology

[erion jaho]

This is amazing

[TheRCTutor]

Thanks!

[rx327prime]

that's great !

Have you heard about graphene capacitor, in a very near futur , you'll be able to fly for several hours, and restore your battery in less than one minute.

A society named "united drone" already use that kind of tech, and the most interesting is that anyone will be able to "print" batteries with a simple DVD writer , using the lightscribe technology, take a look at lightsribed graphene !

Graphene will also make flying devices lighter and so much more resistant.

[TheRCTutor]

Graphene definitely is some pretty neat stuff. I've also heard of being able to use it as an ink that gets applied to paper. So that you can print batteries that are paper thin.

[jkflorida2013]

That's a beast little quad. Very clean! The only problem is you shouldn't use metal screws to hold down the KK2 board.

[TheRCTutor]

Thanks. Yeah I remember reading about that particular issue on the KK2 thread, but I haven't run into any problems with this setup. I made sure the metal wasn't in contact with any traces on the board before I screwed them down.

[Will Brown]

We will use open source code for the flight control to hopefully save time. We'll be trying some interesting controller methods though, like short range flight via Bluetooth and a mobile app. While not terribly useful, I needed something to make the project more substantial than soldering some components together.

I also made a derivative of your frame on thingiverse for my printrbot Jr. My print bed is about 1/4 of the size of the whole frame.

[TheRCTutor]

Thanks! Your project sounds pretty cool. Will you be using some open source firmware like MultiWii or will you be custom coding your own control algorithms?

[Will Brown]

Looks awesome. I am a senior Computer Science student and am going to be building a derivative of this for my senior project. Not having done any quad rotor builds before, I'm sticking pretty close to your parts list except for the controller board, which will be replaced with an Arduino based system.

[rogueqd]

I'd forgotten about powering the camera from the video Tx, in my planes I've always powered it directly as the video Tx is usually back near the tail. It seems to work well.