Your cart is currently empty!
Other
A collection of other day to day mini-projects
-
Mongoose Parts (Part 2)
I decided to try and get into racing as well as freestyle so my Old mongoose frame gets another redesign back to a lightweight race. However I still don’t like the default standoffs so I decided to try a more typical standoffs + TPU parts arrangement. Cue the designs: The Camera mount moves the camera…
-
Another Custom Canopy
I’m not 100% sure what the frame is but someone wanted a custom canopy. The feature tree was a bit messy but I’m pretty happy with the result. One thing I’m pretty pleased about is using standoffs for to mount the canopy. It provides a fair amount more protection for the flight stack, provides a…
-
RC Car – Spare Parts
I have (very much accidently) collected several RC cars over the years. One, an FTX Colt is particularly fragile. Recently one of the steering uprights broke. Its a fairly complex part that undergoes a fair amount of load, especially in a crash. But I thought I’d give printing it a go anyway. Even if just…
-
Printed Finger Blocks
I really started to feel the lack of exercise from Covid-19 recently. I can go for runs and do bodyweight exercised to help but I needed something to help with finger strength. The pockets are relatively deep so they aren’t the most challenging holds. But they serve my purposes perfectly. I printed them in PETG,…
-
Lockdown Mattyflips
Finally got a chance to go out and fly during this lockdown. The 5 inch felt a bit risky with so many people wandering around. Stuck with DVR from a 3″ for now then.
-
Flight In Croatia
I took my quad to Croatia with me and while out cyling one day we spotted a little ruined building up on a hill. The next day i set out on a mission to find it. It took my about two hours of cycling in the boiling sun to find a path there but felt…
-
Carbon Fiber Reinforcing 3D Prints
The Problem 3D prints are generally on the brittle side. Especially under tension between the layers. A brilliant way to get around this is to use flexible filaments. TPU, PP etc. These filaments are especially popular in the FPV world where they are used to mount cameras, protect electronics and often form the main cover…
-
TPU Canopy
Turns out, even when they’re mostly made of metal and carbon fiber, flying small tiny machines at speeds up to 100mph sometimes results in bits breaking. In the case of this post, the item in question was a plastic canopy for a 3″ quad. Normally, as someone who owns 3D printers, breaking something made of…
-
Printing Topology
I had the idea that it would be fun to print out a mountain. Specifically, Cader Idris, a mountain in Wales that I had walked up. I assumed that someone (probably smarter than me) had done this before. The good news is that they had but it took a bit of research to find the…