 Come in, come in, here we go. Oh boy, here it goes! Oh! Hey guys, welcome to Rotorite, I'm Bobby FPV. Hi, I'm Les Flair C. I'm Peter FPV. And usually our drones are made of carbon fiber. That's right. But you have something special. I haven't seen it, Peter hasn't seen it. Can you like unveil it for us? A lot of people have tried to do this in the past and have failed. And it is- What do they look like to fail? Like, what do you mean they failed? Well, I'll tell you in a second. I've got a 3D printed drone. And you might be thinking, 3D printed drone, that could be very strong, right? Well, Bamboo Labs sent me this awesome new 3D printer, the X1 Carbon. And I wanted to try to use it to print a drone with carbon fiber infused filament. So let's see if carbon fiber 3D printed drone in 2023 can actually make a difference. Check this out. That would be really interesting. 3D printed drone! Bam! It looks like carbon fiber, doesn't it? Yeah, I can't even tell. I can't not tell. You can't really tell that it's made of plastic. So this is actually carbon fiber infused nylon. That is strong, dude. What the heck? Yeah, it's really strong. Like, I'm not gonna break it, but like, that's a little bit of flex, but that's expressive. Yeah, I figured what better frame than the tank to test the durability of this stuff and what better place to take it than Detroit to bash it, right? And let's see how long it lasts before it's broken. Yeah, I mean, your tank design has definitely proven its durability with carbon. So like, can people just 3D print their arms now? Well, let's check it out. I will tell you that I had some failures along the way. This frame right here, for example, was made with carbon fiber infused PLA. And unfortunately, the carbon fiber didn't solve the problem that PLA has in Florida where you leave it in your car and the heat of the car melts the crap out of this. This looks really funny. That's all I got. It's funny cause far it looks like carbon fiber and then it's just like all invented. So this whole frame was 3D printed with carbon fiber infused PLA. PLA is an organic material that's better for the environment. It's very inexpensive, but unfortunately it prints at a very low temperature so it melts easy if you leave it in your car in Florida. So you don't want to leave it, you don't want to leave it in a car before it or it looks like this. So I mean, I've seen 3D printed drones before and a lot of you guys are going to comment that, but like, so carbon fiber infuses, what's the difference? Is that the difference? Right, exactly. So this is carbon fiber infused nylon. Bamboo Labs sent me this awesome X1 carbon 3D printer which is able to print materials that my normal 3D printers can't print because it prints at really high temperatures. For example, this carbon fiber infused nylon prints at 290 degrees Celsius, which is really hot for a 3D printer. Cool. So like most 3D printers just don't have the specs to basically print this. Right, they don't have the capability to print something that hot. Bamboo Labs X1 carbon actually prints it like three times the speed of my Robo 3D which is what I had previous to that. So it's crazy. Not only does it print like way better but it prints way faster. I mean, I'm really excited just like to see if it's actually any dirt. Like if it's going to take one crash and not break, I'd be like, that's a win. I know, I believe, yeah, I agree. Because I think every other 3D printed drone frame that I've seen is like. First off extremely weak. Don't stop it. It flies terribly because there's so much flexing. This doesn't have much flexing. And also first crash or even a hard landing. Yeah, this is more of a proof of concept than anything. Well, let's get it up in the air. Check it out. If you want to fly first. You want to, you guys. I built it. If you guys can fly it. You know how it works. I built it. You guys break it or just shoot. You wanna fly first? I'll fly first. I like to fly first. Cause I always fly stuff. Yeah. You guys, I haven't broken many of your projects. Okay, all right. Here you go, man. I'm gonna move it away. Don't break it now. This is my prized possession. These guys always break my drones. If you break my drone, I'll be really sad. Be really sad. I'll have to break the cycle. Okay. You'll have to break the cycle? Well, I never flown with this small radio or a better flight for us. Yeah, I know. Everybody complains about my radio. We just went ahead and put a GoPro Hero 11 on there. And I intentionally turned off hypersmooths so that you guys can really see like, what vibrations there are. If there's any weird flight characteristics. So just so you guys get a better idea of what's actually happening on the quad. It's so weird. All right. Let's do this. Oh, wow. Oh, that sounds good. What the heck? Okay, we're good. We got some jitters or something. The GoPro maybe? It's probably the tune. Or you think the GoPro changed something? Yeah, maybe, cause it's heavier now. Yeah. I mean, just give it a little full throttle blip. You've got your full power lines though, be careful. Yeah, I'm gonna go over here real quick. I mean, it looks decent. It just has a weird sound. Yeah, don't fly over our heads. Yeah. Yeah, don't fly over our heads. It looks decent like, but it just has a weird sound. I don't, I can't. It's probably the tune. It's probably the tune. 100%. Yeah. Realistically, I think it's more of the carbon fiber arm. I gave it a quick tune, you know, just to make sure that it would fly for us. Yeah. But I didn't tune with the GoPro. We just added a GoPro. So that probably made a difference for sure. I'm against Peter. You're ripping it. What do you, what do you feel? It feels good. Just that, that shakiness, that tune. But other than that, like it's flying good. I'm turning good. Let me see if we can do a power loop here. Watch. Let's go do a power loop. Let's go in here. And there goes the episode. Woo. Oh, yeah. I'm not used to this. Are the shakes that we're hearing, do you actually feel them? Like, can you actually see the quash shaking? Yeah, I can actually see the quash shaking. Yeah. So it's giving me a little bit of issues. So it's pretty bad. Yeah. Sometimes you just hear something, but it flies fine. A little, but that's okay. Let's go back for this power loop. It's a big power loop. Yeah, because I don't want to, I'm not used to these rates. 700. I'm used to 1100. So these are like, yeah. Oh my gosh. 1100. Yeah. I started with really high rates like that, too. There we go. There we go. Got the power loop. All right. Woo, we got it. A little roll in there. I forgot these are 700 rates. You got to hold it longer. You got to hold it longer than that. Exactly. One of these Detroit power lines that you don't see, you'll just grab it and just take it off. You know, like most places have ghost branches. Detroit has ghost metal wires. Yeah. Sick. Did any catch? No, I'm not doing that gap. I'm not going to break your drone. Everybody else do a little reverse. He's so nice. I know. Everyone's really nice with my first like fire drone. I know. And then they're hanging out with a little venue roll. Woo, it made it back in one piece. Made it back in one piece. Hooray. Didn't die on the first flight. That's awesome. That's a success right there. So was it a terrible experience? The shakiness, yes. The shakiness. Oh really? Do you think you were able to like. It was just, I don't know. It was vibing, huh? Like a camera mount or something? No, you could hear it. I could probably fix the tune really quick. And I could probably solve the issue with that. Really quick. Lower the master slider. One more, one more two more. I don't think it hurts if it takes really fast. Yeah, the motors are hot as sh**. Yeah. Actually, they're not that hot, but they're warm. It's definitely the GoPro that changed it. Yeah. Because last minute I was like. Because you had a tune for it without, huh? Yeah. Yeah, okay. It was much lighter without the GoPro. There we go. Oh yeah. That's why it's good now. Okay. That's fine. Yeah, it's fine. That's how it handles the Bobito. Your goggle foam is really nice. The Bobito. That's the DJI foam. Really? Yeah, the DJI foam and the Waxnau goggles. Oh yeah, look at that. Yeah, much better. Yeah. It doesn't sound all fluttery anymore. It was just a tune. We're good. It doesn't sound all fluttery, but it. It still feels bad? Yeah. I mean, it doesn't like. Well, it's detuned. Defined bad. Oh, jeez. Oh, that's about a prop wash. We didn't have Tyler tune this one. This was tuned by Sean, who's not very good at tuning. I mean, also, we have three printed a little floppy. But I mean, realistically, if you were to give me this quad and say, hey, can you fly this for me and see what's up, I would just be like, yeah, your tune sucks. I wouldn't think that you have different arms on there. For me, I think you can tune it to fly good. We just didn't do it. We don't have the time. It doesn't matter. No, I hate tuning. I hand my drones to Tyler now. I love tuning. Yeah, I think this one would take a lot of work realistically. I could be out for like 30 minutes to an hour. Yeah, we don't have time for that. I think the biggest thing, the biggest test for this is when we crash it, it's just going to break instantly. Yeah. We're going to have to give it the durability test for sure. We're at a random point, but sometimes if you have a frame and it's like, oh crap, my arm broke and I can't buy an extra. You buy a new frame, like a different frame, which built that one up. Or is this a viable option to just three-print something if you really want to fly in a pinch? If you broke an arm and you don't have an arm and you just needed to three-d-print one out of four arms. Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, just to have a backup. Yeah. So, rarely until you're armorized from Rotorite.com. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like this just does like that. If you really need to fly, you really, oh geez, it's power lines. Like if you really want to fly, is this good enough? And we'll see when we crash it. I mean, there's this wall here that we should just throttle it into at the end of it. Or we could just try a trick until we crash. So, you were saying any printer can print those? Yes. If you're going to use nylon, you're going to have to build a print at 290 degrees Celsius. You have to have a certain type of nozzle on there. Bamboo has a special three-d-print nozzle on their actual streeter that allows it to print harder materials like carbon fiber. So, a regular nozzle is not going to be hard enough to print the carbon fiber infused materials. They sent me carbon fiber infused PLA, PETG, and nylon. And after PLA failed, I went straight to the MAX, which is nylon, just because I wanted to print with the hardest material they had. You know, that would take chances. Carbon infused nylon? I hit one gap with it. Oh, you got it? Nice. Nice. Oh, that's cool. Okay, that's cool. Cool roll. Did we hit the record button on the GoPro? I did. See, looped power lines. I can't really see them, but oh well. Yeah, I mean like, oh, I hit a little branch. It's okay. You're landscaping. Landscaping. Hit it again. It's so, like, I can't tell what of it is me complaining about how your radio feels versus the rates. Yeah, the rates, the radio, the tune, you got all kinds of weird stuff going on. Yeah. That you're not used to. Yeah, it's not happy when doing this. Man, you're really pushing it hard, man. Wow. It's handling it. Yeah. I haven't gotten any of those. I'm so scared to push it that hard because my mind is moving so much. I haven't gotten any of those crazy vibrations. That's good. That, like, that happened earlier in this battle. Oh, jeez. You keep almost hitting that power line over and over again. Hit it again. Oh, jeez. Oh my gosh, I see the stuff moving around inside the Fando. I want to see you matty flipping to one. Into a gap with this drone? Do it. Sure, do it. Let's go. Okay, get a new battery. Now we're just going to send in some tricks. If this thing somehow survives, like, these little minor crashes, or just, like, if I make it through my pack at the end of it, we're just going to throttle it into a wall and see what happens. I mean, you could go straight down to the ground like Barwell did, you know? Honestly? I'm down. So we used all 3D printed arms on this, and I'm, like, trying to think in my brain, like, okay, if I had this printer or any printer that could print this and I didn't have an arm, would one arm still fly as good? I think it would give you some where you need to be for the day. It'll give you a day of fun, you know what I mean? Yeah, like, for sure. And if you printed, like, 6 of them, even if you broke it, you'd still be able to keep flying that day. Yeah, like, I don't... What's the case scenario, you know? I don't think this is unflyable. Right. It may not be the future of drones, but it might get you through in a pinch. All right, we're going to have a little fun, guys. GoPro is rolling. All right, here we go. We're going to get into the flow. You got started with the GoPro, right? Yes. Boom, flowing. Boom, all cinematic. Oh, yeah. So beautiful. Woo-hoo-hoo! From the moon! From the moon! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He made it out! Yeah, I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I was just like, what's going on? I thought it was dead. I thought it was dead, too. Oh, my God. And then I somehow made it through. I mean, okay, let's just... My heart. My heart. My heart. My other one. You're part of my nerves. We don't have a left. True. True. You have another drone, though. Yeah. Oh, I want to try that one. That was from the moon, man. No. I went like... Oh, my gosh. Oh, no, no, no. Give me the heebie-dee jeebie. Oh, my God. It's alive, still. It's alive, still. Dude, this is really fun. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. How am I still in the... Oh, my gosh. Oh, Lord. I don't want to break your GoPro. Let's go, Bubby. Let's go. I want to freak out alive. That's weird. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my goodness. Here it goes. No. Oh, my goodness. Oh, no, it's alive. Oh, my gosh. That's a success, man. That was so good. That was so good. That was so nice. For me, what a win is, like, it's clearly flyable. So, yeah, we don't need to put the GoPro back on for this, right? Yeah. Because we're probably just going to test it. I mean, I'm going to intentionally crash it. There's an awesome wall over there. Well, let Peter do it. Yeah, Peter. Just like... There's a wall over there. Just like... So, when you go full throttle, go like this so that you're at an angle so that... So, the arm hits first. Yeah. If we hit like this, I think it'd still be fine, to be honest. We've shown that this has a use, which is amazing. I didn't think we'd get that far. I'm honestly impressed that I was able to, like, pull out of the dice because I was going from just... I'm just like, oh, I'm just going to go really high and just make it throw it up. And it was just like... Oh, my gosh. But it made it. It made it. Yeah, that's what I thought. I thought it would freak out and just, like, full throttle. Yeah. But I mean... I thought this episode was going to be over in 10 seconds. Me too. Me too. I thought we were going to be done and we weren't going to have anything to film. I'm so impressed that it actually is useful. Like, people can use these things to get them through in a pinch. Go ahead and take off Peter. And you see a red dot in the top right corner, right? Yep. Cool. You know what I'm doing. Two red dots are all right. All right, here we go. Just aim for the target. You got this. All right. Oh, this fly is so much better than when I flew the first time. Oh, my goodness. All right, so we painted a target on the wall. Kill it. For Peter to hit. He's going to do a little bit of flying and then aim for the target. See what happens. Coming. Here we go. Oh, boy. Here it goes. Oh, yeah. It's broken. Oh, yeah. It's broken. Oh, yeah. It's broken. It's broken. All right. Check it out. Oh, my goodness. I have never intentionally cast a drone before. Oh, my gosh. Was it awesome? Was it the best feeling ever? Yes, it was. And it wasn't even yours, Rose. All right. All right. So let's assess the damage. Do we still got three good arms? Three good arms. This, this time clearly took all the hit. Yeah. We had a part where it usually wouldn't. Oh, that's true. And it also broke in the middle. Like these are two places arms usually don't break. On the tank. Right. The way you have it designed. Usually they break here. Right. This one broke in the middle and at the motor. Yeah. It's very strange. I mean, either way, the fact that like three of them survived. The fact that we still have three working arms, I mean. That was a hard hit. That was a hard hit. And then it hit multiple times too. When it reached it off and hit the ground. Hit boom, then bam, bam, bam. All right. Here's thank you to Bamboo Labs for sending us the 3D printer and the material to make this drone. Honestly, it exceeded my expectations. Oh my gosh, me too, man. Wow. I feel throttled into that wall. Yeah. That's wild. You really feel throttled into it and only one arm broke. That's crazy. Three are so good. Dude, look at the back plate. Yeah. Literally the top plate in the back has a little crush. I mean, yeah, this was a really fun project. Let us know in the comments down below what other projects you guys want to see. Link in the description to a folder called Crazy Projects by Sean. Thank you guys so much for watching this one. Subscribe. We post every Monday. And you can get that. Don't forget the bell. Yeah. Don't forget the bell. We post every Monday. Thanks guys for watching. I'm Bubby FPV. I'm LesFlyer C. I'm Peter FPV. And we'll see you next time on Rotary. Woo! You know what else is great about solder free motors? What's that? When it broke, it just unplugged. So I can reuse this motor.