Hey nick! Amazing project! It seems like you are using PLA as a material to print the frame. If you use ABS, PETG or even ASA, it will be much stiffer, and you'll be able to make the drone lighter. Your printer should be able to print these materials easily
@@colinmetzger6755 It's really impressive how strong PLA can be, but it's weakness is heat. For a drone frame, I would use something like Nylon, Polycarbonate, or PET with a carbon fiber or glass fiber additive for better rigidity.
Those issues you had were what you call "fly away", where the flight controller gains are higher than the frames rigidity can handle, causing a back and forth over-increase of the motor, then the opposite side motor trys to compensate for changing tilt angle, and this continues in a loop causing the fly away. You could have simply lowered the master gain by 20%, and it would've flown. The two bolts and no wire inside arm is definitely an upgrade though, no reason to make a plastic frame weaker for looks.
Congrats on getting it working. I applaud your willingness to stick with it through failure. I just recently designed a fully working line of 3D printed frames. They fly VERY well and handle frame vibrations arguably better than a lot of conventional carbon plate frames. I was in the same headspace as you for a while, trying to copy the existing frame design using 3D printed plastics. Then one night I had a moment of clarity where I saw the error in my thinking. You can't copy the existing designs used for carbon plate frames and then attempt to get your strength via thicker arms or more perimeters or different filaments. You have to think different and use the 3D print processes to your advantage. I'm not going to give it away because I intend on selling my frames here in a couple months. But suffice it to say when I print with PPA-CF the frames I build are INCREDIBLY strong. Almost impossible to break. Even the PLA prototypes are 100% flyable. I'm at about 100g total frame weight for a 5" stretch. I can print up to a full 7" frame off a K1c, and this design works well al the way down to 4" or 3". So I can say it's completely possible to build a 3D printed frame that meets the weight needs and performance requirements. You just need to avoid getting stuck in a specific method of thinking. Don't copy, re-invent!
Another funny Nick Idea™. Now do a power loop through your 3D printer gantry! Thanks for the great content, my favourite local UA-cam channel! I recognise some of the places you film all the time! I have a Neo with the FPV motion combo... but one day I'll build my own O4 Pro freestyle 5-inch! I don't want to have to worry about 3D printing parts though...
this channel is awesome and i think it could get a lot of people into fpv i don't own a quad i just like fpv and engineering in general and i'm thinking of getting my first quad ! awesome stuff
Great video, interesting project. If you get a hankering to do this again, the frame requirements CAN be met on a 3" quad, where this 5" is just a little outside the limits of current 3D printer plastics. The awesome frame you have designed/printed, will explode if you hit stuff. The weight of a 3D printed 3" drone will withstand crashes (assuming a good frame design). Can't wait for your next video, this was a great watch!
Great video! One idea - For the H beam design, 3D printing has the advantage of internal infill, preventing the need for things like I/H beams. Its a interesting concept that isn't like any regular manufacturing technique meaning you don't have to follow conventional design.
Great video nick, I loved the storytelling. Just be aware, the place you were freestyling at the end, I’m pretty sure it’s in Newcastle, that place has a lot of asbestos. Loved the video
One of my favorite things with all my 3D printed things is finally getting it successfully after trial and error. That turned out awesome! Also, I immediately recognized that song there at the end haha, been a bit since I've heard that one!! Chasing You by Bethel Music!!
This was so awesome to watch, ur vids are more like little movies the way you film them. I reckon the ending was worth the work you put in! Ive been loving your thumbnails for ur vids as well, by the way
Your frame looks slick. I've been designing and printing drone frames for the last year. I've kept it small though, mostly 65mm whoops and a 3" freestyle frame. I've been using PLA and PETG-CF to print with and the 3" will shatter on a good crash but the tinywhoop frames will be pretty durable. I don't think I'd do a 5", the increase in weight and likelihood of it breaking in crashes scares me too much.
next you will be buying cnc machine to cut carbon frames 😉cool project but yeh 3d prints struggle with frame resonance you have to dial back that fc for the plastic frame for it to work as you found from printing a thicker frame. worth looking at different plastics in future tho to print with, also would of been cool to see the Dbug log data when you managed to get it to fly at end
hi nick you may not know the answer to this yet but when will the aethur fpv site be fully up and running. i really want to use it because i have just started the fpv hobby and i feel this will be really useful so roughly when will it have all the products and information on it
Man I also printed my own drone and had the exact same problem! I made it super bulky to finally be able to prevent the flyaways. In the end, even tho it worked, I stopped using it bc even a small crash destroyed one, two or multiple arms lol
Designing frames not as simply make it rigid. You also need to consider the vibrations, how it will be absorbed or transfered into the gyro. Excessive vibrations (noise) would make it fly away like that. Toning down the PID will surely help, but low PID gain will make it to feel sloppy and not fun to fly. Material that bend and flex easily could also make a drone fly really bad.
Really good video! Loving the long form content and I also really liked the design/building side of this one. Keep it up!! Also is that abandoned spot in Brisbane by chance? I've been looking for a good place like that to fly for a while now
@@Nick_FPV oh sick! I live in Brisbane but I’m from Newcastle, so I go there fairly regularly. Just looked up the spot. I’ll have to bring my FPV stuff next time now that I know where it is. Very keen!
ASA for sure company i used to work for uses it and a special plastic they actually sell it look up igus in Rhode Island you can score some free samples.
Nice work getting that frame to work! I have seen some other videos about drones. Vibration can really throw off the flight controller. I think it can even make them restart. Which looked like what was happening with yours. However, those initial attempts, at least in audio, sounded absolutely horrible. Maybe the sound problem was just on my end.
wow i have watched so much video,s of 3D printed drones, and in the most video,s broke the drones and there was no second try for print. You did it nice dude😅!
FPV drones are constructed from carbon fiber due to its stiffness, yet it retains flexibility. However, if the frame is excessively rigid, it will fracture upon impact with the ground.
I bet if you`d lower filtering down to 50-70Hz and gave it less master multiplier in PID those previous two frames also would fly. 3D-printing arms IMHO is much harder and heavier than having carbon fiber tubes. even smoler 10mm tube will be much stiffer than 5-7mm thick conventional CF plate type arm.
I’ve seen other people’s explanations on why you were having a fly away and another reason could be if the flight controller and esc were to close together and touching could cause the gyro to go crazy it happened to me once on my drone build and I had the same problem until I gave them some more space if you wanted to see if that was the issue you could look at the black box record
A box profile for the arms may be more optimal, use more walls and top layers, Infil doesn't matter as much. With 3d printing you can make things hollow which is a big deal. Bigger (hollow) arms will be better. If you want to try a different material I'd suggest PET with a fiber fill like glass fiber or carbon fiber. Use a steel nozzle though! Nylon (PA) isn't great because as it soaks up moisture it gets more bendy.
i have the same 3d printer runing klipper on a raspberry pi. i can see of the quality of the print that you need to optimize the slicer setings. first i recoment orca slicer as the slicer just becouse its better then the rest and free. and dont wory you can print whay faster i recomend fore the smal cooling fan you should upgrade there is a good model on printbles that suports 2 fans so with out that fan i recoment 70ms and 1500 accel. with the upgrade i go around 200ms and 2700 acel. hope you have a great time with the great hoby❤
The use of solid sheets of carbon fiber to construct drone airframes is only popular because with the use of cnc machines it is quite easy to build a lightweight and durable frame for reasonable cost. However, thick slabs of carbon fiber is not an efficient use of materials and will not produce the lightest part for a given stiffness. This is where there is great potential for 3D printing to be used to construct more optimized airframe structures. Optimization begins with shedding the currently popular carbon frame designs and looking to full scale aviation for clues. Adopting the principle of pushing you're materials as far apart as you can for a given part envelope is one means of increasing stiffness while keeping the weight as low as possible. A simple example is a solid round steel bar of perhaps 8mm diameter as compared to the exact same amount of material used to construct a hollow tube. The hollow tube will be stiffer in bending than the solid steel bar but the weight is the same. I am using carbon fiber filled nylon for drone airframe parts and I use strategic infill such as honeycomb in order help support thin walled hollow structures to achieve a high level of stiffness, light weight and reasonable crash durability. 3D printed drone airframes are the future..............
interesting... looks like you have a lot more experience with this... I'd be interested in seeing how the carbon filament performs cause that sounds crazy
Man you won a sub here. I'm making a 3D printed version of the CADDX GOFILM20 and every part here is harder than it looks. Nice job, loved the end! Cheers!
@ oh that’s extra steps you got there, for me it was the prototype print->adjust->optimize part that it’s really not so straightforward as I tought. Any small adjustments adds to the queue of steps. In the end, it is such a nice process you start another one. Do you think you’ll try again?
Nothing like homemade drone to teach you about vibration damping, PID tuning and the relationship between strength, rigidity and hardness. You'll feel like you actually learnt something by the end of it 😁 What did the last prototype end up weighing?
4:00 i printed something that took 1 and a half days, it was a giant an-225 myria, and you will realise a 3d printer can be used for more than cool toys, you can 3d print almost anything
you could have increased the strenght of the arms by adding more walls or more infil or a different infil type. Or you could use a different material like abs or petg
The comparison of Printed H beams isn’t a good one as you don’t have isotropic behaviour between layers It’ll resist planar bending along the axis of the beam longitudinally; but it’ll be weaker in any torsion (e.g. the mixed loading it’d experience in a collision)
I would have added a vertical fin so a T not a H. I use PLA+ though over PLA for strength reasons and tweak my settings a bit with walls over density. Strength over weight. Edit: Second point - when you were concerned about vibration did you try attaching it to a brick so it wouldn't take off but you could get telemetry (cinderblock, not a small thing for you to make a flying brick and kill someone)
what songs did you use? 6:47 maybe it responds to "up" too much for its weight? 7:29 oh, that is a whole different problem then i thought 10:56 cool footage!
You could EASILY do this with a filament like PPA-CF. Insanely strong (stronger than pure aluminum). It's very light and super rigid. You could definitely make a "skeletal" drone build out of that, and it would be perfectly rigid enough.
Yeah all good bro looking out for a fellow aus pilot i also have a 3d printer an can model would be cool to calibrate also Do you have a discord sever or something
First thing if you want to make something rigid make the inful higher but not to high or else it will break next is that get something like bambu lab aero filament and because it is strong and specifically made for rc planes and drones
Hey nick great video I was looking to do the same thing and was wondering if you were willing to share your file for the frame so I could make one to plz lmk what u think thanks!
3 months!!! Then you know how I feel, 14 years working on a design, it's almost ready !!!!! aaannndddd you can 3d print it 🙂Maybe you would be interested in Beta testing it?
Now what? Are you planning on releasing the files? Maybe with a file that doesn't have all the holes drilled yet in some places so it can be resized and drilled later.
Maybe some corpo in marketing found a single statistic where it actually can hold up to aluminum, but I seriously doubt it’s a practical replacement for aluminum
@ I mean for sure not directly as strong. But very strong to say the least. Seen a lot of test of hooks and chains being made with them pulling vehicles etc. crazy times we are in for sure
@@mynameisben123 you know how many frames you can print with 1kg?! lol No but seriously it is expensive, but if you were to solely dedicate it to frame building you can print enough frames to easily recoup the money invested. Buying 12 cheap $25 frame is the same amount. With horrible reliability.
I commented a video where you were 3d printing propellors, but I'll offer again here. I build 3D printers capable of carbon and Glass fiber filaments, and would love to print you some stronger parts.
Glass and carbon are great to add more rigidity to the printed parts. Carful using it if you do nick. The glass and carbon fibers can be very small and become airborne during printing. They act the same way asbestos does on the lungs. Run the printer in a enclosed print tent and run a fan to push air out of your living area. Something like a portable ac hose and window mount works great to get it out of the house.
Hey nick! Amazing project! It seems like you are using PLA as a material to print the frame. If you use ABS, PETG or even ASA, it will be much stiffer, and you'll be able to make the drone lighter. Your printer should be able to print these materials easily
I vote ASA
same
In my testing (with an engineering grade test machine) I have actually found that PLA is actually stronger than a lot of ABS and ASA
Duramic 3D's PLA+ is the toughest material I've used before going into engineering grade nylons and PET and what I build my 3D printed drones out of.
@@colinmetzger6755 It's really impressive how strong PLA can be, but it's weakness is heat. For a drone frame, I would use something like Nylon, Polycarbonate, or PET with a carbon fiber or glass fiber additive for better rigidity.
Awesome project dude! Watching your progression over the past year has been inspring, keep up the great work!
ThankyOU!!
Those issues you had were what you call "fly away", where the flight controller gains are higher than the frames rigidity can handle, causing a back and forth over-increase of the motor, then the opposite side motor trys to compensate for changing tilt angle, and this continues in a loop causing the fly away. You could have simply lowered the master gain by 20%, and it would've flown. The two bolts and no wire inside arm is definitely an upgrade though, no reason to make a plastic frame weaker for looks.
I wonder if he changed the PID gains at all, or if the heavier frame just prevented the gains from being over-tuned anymore 😂
yeah i was thinking the same thing the whole time lol
hmmmmmmmm that's a much better explanation than mine lol
Bro went to an underground parking just to film one scene 😂
Dedication at its finest!!
It was the best music/video montage I've seen on a field trip to look at a metal beam 😂
HAHA yes I did
Congrats on getting it working. I applaud your willingness to stick with it through failure. I just recently designed a fully working line of 3D printed frames. They fly VERY well and handle frame vibrations arguably better than a lot of conventional carbon plate frames. I was in the same headspace as you for a while, trying to copy the existing frame design using 3D printed plastics. Then one night I had a moment of clarity where I saw the error in my thinking. You can't copy the existing designs used for carbon plate frames and then attempt to get your strength via thicker arms or more perimeters or different filaments. You have to think different and use the 3D print processes to your advantage. I'm not going to give it away because I intend on selling my frames here in a couple months. But suffice it to say when I print with PPA-CF the frames I build are INCREDIBLY strong. Almost impossible to break. Even the PLA prototypes are 100% flyable. I'm at about 100g total frame weight for a 5" stretch. I can print up to a full 7" frame off a K1c, and this design works well al the way down to 4" or 3". So I can say it's completely possible to build a 3D printed frame that meets the weight needs and performance requirements. You just need to avoid getting stuck in a specific method of thinking. Don't copy, re-invent!
where do you sell?
Me too. Reach out if you want to collab.
shiiiiiiiiiiett that's wild.... I'll keep an eye out for that man cause that's crazy
Another funny Nick Idea™. Now do a power loop through your 3D printer gantry!
Thanks for the great content, my favourite local UA-cam channel! I recognise some of the places you film all the time! I have a Neo with the FPV motion combo... but one day I'll build my own O4 Pro freestyle 5-inch! I don't want to have to worry about 3D printing parts though...
This
Same, I am printing an RC airplane right now!
aweee thanks man!
Another vid! Yipee!!
P.S. this is too perfect of a video, because i have REALLY gotten invested in both drones and 3d printing
Thankyou so muchhhhh
this channel is awesome and i think it could get a lot of people into fpv i don't own a quad i just like fpv and engineering in general and i'm thinking of getting my first quad ! awesome stuff
Great video, interesting project.
If you get a hankering to do this again, the frame requirements CAN be met on a 3" quad, where this 5" is just a little outside the limits of current 3D printer plastics. The awesome frame you have designed/printed, will explode if you hit stuff. The weight of a 3D printed 3" drone will withstand crashes (assuming a good frame design).
Can't wait for your next video, this was a great watch!
Thanks! Yea that's what I was thinking! After the second crash I was considering making it a smaller frame because It did make more sense
Great video! One idea - For the H beam design, 3D printing has the advantage of internal infill, preventing the need for things like I/H beams. Its a interesting concept that isn't like any regular manufacturing technique meaning you don't have to follow conventional design.
You need to try tiny whoops
he has
Check out his 4th vid back. Its about tiny whoops
I have yahh they're mad
Great video nick, I loved the storytelling. Just be aware, the place you were freestyling at the end, I’m pretty sure it’s in Newcastle, that place has a lot of asbestos. Loved the video
yeaaaa I know I try to stay outside when I'm there (thankyou though)
One of my favorite things with all my 3D printed things is finally getting it successfully after trial and error.
That turned out awesome!
Also, I immediately recognized that song there at the end haha, been a bit since I've heard that one!! Chasing You by Bethel Music!!
Genius idea 💡🔥
Thanks!! :D
This was so awesome to watch, ur vids are more like little movies the way you film them. I reckon the ending was worth the work you put in! Ive been loving your thumbnails for ur vids as well, by the way
Thankyou! and thanks!!! I try to make my thumbnails different HAHA
Awesome work Nick! Glad to see you figured it out in the end! 🤙
yea me too HAHA I would of been upset if I didnt
Video Idea: Water Proof Drone
I've been thinking about that for a while as well... HAHA
Awesome video, love seeing the full exploration and struggles, proper engineering right there!
I like those vids as well So iI'm glad you liked it!
Your frame looks slick. I've been designing and printing drone frames for the last year. I've kept it small though, mostly 65mm whoops and a 3" freestyle frame. I've been using PLA and PETG-CF to print with and the 3" will shatter on a good crash but the tinywhoop frames will be pretty durable. I don't think I'd do a 5", the increase in weight and likelihood of it breaking in crashes scares me too much.
yeaaa after the second crash I was considering making it a smaller frame cause then for sure it would flex less
next you will be buying cnc machine to cut carbon frames 😉cool project but yeh 3d prints struggle with frame resonance you have to dial back that fc for the plastic frame for it to work as you found from printing a thicker frame. worth looking at different plastics in future tho to print with, also would of been cool to see the Dbug log data when you managed to get it to fly at end
hi nick you may not know the answer to this yet but when will the aethur fpv site be fully up and running. i really want to use it because i have just started the fpv hobby and i feel this will be really useful so roughly when will it have all the products and information on it
wow this yellow drone looks so sick 🔥
I really liked the addition of the purple arms!!, purple and gold are Husky colors!!!
Thanks!
Loved this video ❤
Thanks my G ;)
Make sure you have great ventilation!!!
Man I also printed my own drone and had the exact same problem! I made it super bulky to finally be able to prevent the flyaways. In the end, even tho it worked, I stopped using it bc even a small crash destroyed one, two or multiple arms lol
Designing frames not as simply make it rigid. You also need to consider the vibrations, how it will be absorbed or transfered into the gyro. Excessive vibrations (noise) would make it fly away like that. Toning down the PID will surely help, but low PID gain will make it to feel sloppy and not fun to fly. Material that bend and flex easily could also make a drone fly really bad.
This looks epic!! You should start selling frames 😮
At some point for sure!
Thanks for the video! I was just thinking about doing the same thing last week!
Yo! nice!
8:11 literally saw my own face from my phone screen and had me reflect my life decisions for a moment
That’s so relatable lol
HAHA sorry
Great video! very inspiring! I love FPV even more!
Yay!
Really good video! Loving the long form content and I also really liked the design/building side of this one. Keep it up!!
Also is that abandoned spot in Brisbane by chance? I've been looking for a good place like that to fly for a while now
Thankyou so much!! It's in the Newcastle area. Yea man It's so hard to find nice spots
@@Nick_FPV oh sick! I live in Brisbane but I’m from Newcastle, so I go there fairly regularly. Just looked up the spot. I’ll have to bring my FPV stuff next time now that I know where it is. Very keen!
ASA for sure company i used to work for uses it and a special plastic they actually sell it look up igus in Rhode Island you can score some free samples.
Oooooo
Nice work getting that frame to work! I have seen some other videos about drones. Vibration can really throw off the flight controller. I think it can even make them restart. Which looked like what was happening with yours.
However, those initial attempts, at least in audio, sounded absolutely horrible. Maybe the sound problem was just on my end.
nu they sounded like they were oscillating heaps
@Nick_FPV Oh, well, that's a good description of a problem.
i love the editing
Thankyou! :D
I am sorry for laughing about that maiden flight. I laugh, because I've done it too.
can you give us 3d models
@@usefullnnessfridgwdym get a job??? All he askes for where the STL-files
@@usefullnnessfridg ha ha what? You are so dumb
@@usefullnnessfridghe just asked a question
@@usefullnnessfridgwhy so mad he just asked for models
I'll upload it soon!
wow i have watched so much video,s of 3D printed drones, and in the most video,s broke the drones and there was no second try for print. You did it nice dude😅!
yayyy HAHA
You should enable Shaded Edges in fusion, it's both useful and imo looks better. Cool video!
FPV drones are constructed from carbon fiber due to its stiffness, yet it retains flexibility. However, if the frame is excessively rigid, it will fracture upon impact with the ground.
I bet if you`d lower filtering down to 50-70Hz and gave it less master multiplier in PID those previous two frames also would fly.
3D-printing arms IMHO is much harder and heavier than having carbon fiber tubes. even smoler 10mm tube will be much stiffer than 5-7mm thick conventional CF plate type arm.
that...is a good point...
I’ve seen other people’s explanations on why you were having a fly away and another reason could be if the flight controller and esc were to close together and touching could cause the gyro to go crazy it happened to me once on my drone build and I had the same problem until I gave them some more space if you wanted to see if that was the issue you could look at the black box record
A box profile for the arms may be more optimal, use more walls and top layers, Infil doesn't matter as much. With 3d printing you can make things hollow which is a big deal. Bigger (hollow) arms will be better.
If you want to try a different material I'd suggest PET with a fiber fill like glass fiber or carbon fiber. Use a steel nozzle though! Nylon (PA) isn't great because as it soaks up moisture it gets more bendy.
I definitely would want to try that carbon filament at some point it sounds crazy
Bambu works amazing too. P1S is good with materials from experience
Yea Bambu is the best I should have gotten that HAHA
Can u build a rc plane next ?
I know nothing about RC planes but I could tryyyyy
i have the same 3d printer runing klipper on a raspberry pi. i can see of the quality of the print that you need to optimize the slicer setings. first i recoment orca slicer as the slicer just becouse its better then the rest and free. and dont wory you can print whay faster i recomend fore the smal cooling fan you should upgrade there is a good model on printbles that suports 2 fans so with out that fan i recoment 70ms and 1500 accel. with the upgrade i go around 200ms and 2700 acel. hope you have a great time with the great hoby❤
interesting! since the video I've tried Prusa but I'll give that one a go
The use of solid sheets of carbon fiber to construct drone airframes is only popular because with the use of cnc machines it is quite easy to build a lightweight and durable frame for reasonable cost. However, thick slabs of carbon fiber is not an efficient use of materials and will not produce the lightest part for a given stiffness. This is where there is great potential for 3D printing to be used to construct more optimized airframe structures. Optimization begins with shedding the currently popular carbon frame designs and looking to full scale aviation for clues. Adopting the principle of pushing you're materials as far apart as you can for a given part envelope is one means of increasing stiffness while keeping the weight as low as possible. A simple example is a solid round steel bar of perhaps 8mm diameter as compared to the exact same amount of material used to construct a hollow tube. The hollow tube will be stiffer in bending than the solid steel bar but the weight is the same. I am using carbon fiber filled nylon for drone airframe parts and I use strategic infill such as honeycomb in order help support thin walled hollow structures to achieve a high level of stiffness, light weight and reasonable crash durability. 3D printed drone airframes are the future..............
interesting... looks like you have a lot more experience with this... I'd be interested in seeing how the carbon filament performs cause that sounds crazy
you should try to 3d print a tiny whoop style drone!!!
Man you won a sub here. I'm making a 3D printed version of the CADDX GOFILM20 and every part here is harder than it looks. Nice job, loved the end! Cheers!
It really is... i cut out so much messing around with actually just getting the printer to work HAHA
@ oh that’s extra steps you got there, for me it was the prototype print->adjust->optimize part that it’s really not so straightforward as I tought. Any small adjustments adds to the queue of steps. In the end, it is such a nice process you start another one. Do you think you’ll try again?
holy shit clean that buildplate
HAHA yea I had a bit of trouble with it and put glue on it to make the prints stick... gotta give it a wash
Nothing like homemade drone to teach you about vibration damping, PID tuning and the relationship between strength, rigidity and hardness. You'll feel like you actually learnt something by the end of it 😁 What did the last prototype end up weighing?
HAHA man the last prototype was HEAVY it's currently dismantled but I'd say maybe like 1kg?
If an Ender blows your mind, then a Bambu will make you addicted to that hobby lol ...
bruh i've seen Bambu... the speed is crazyyyyyy
Love how you reply to every comment :]
4:00 i printed something that took 1 and a half days, it was a giant an-225 myria, and you will realise a 3d printer can be used for more than cool toys, you can 3d print almost anything
Bruh that's a huggggeee print
@@Nick_FPVit is, but it was worth it
you could have increased the strenght of the arms by adding more walls or more infil or a different infil type. Or you could use a different material like abs or petg
I did add more walls I just didn't put it in the video haha but yea I read on reddit that it adds more strength than infill
@@Nick_FPV do you have the stl's files for the drone frame
what was the total build cost
Where are you located? You have a lot of good bandos and spots to fly.
The comparison of Printed H beams isn’t a good one as you don’t have isotropic behaviour between layers
It’ll resist planar bending along the axis of the beam longitudinally; but it’ll be weaker in any torsion (e.g. the mixed loading it’d experience in a collision)
ur vid made so good gng keep it up
I would have added a vertical fin so a T not a H. I use PLA+ though over PLA for strength reasons and tweak my settings a bit with walls over density. Strength over weight.
Edit: Second point - when you were concerned about vibration did you try attaching it to a brick so it wouldn't take off but you could get telemetry (cinderblock, not a small thing for you to make a flying brick and kill someone)
I think I completely underestimated how much it would vibrate haha but interesting tweak 🤔
Dude was, oh i dont want to print a benchy, lets print a hard fine tune model for ymy second print 😂😂
HAHA Cheese is the new benchy
Welcome to 3D printing. time to make some room for more filaments.
Already got way too many under my couch 🙃
what songs did you use?
6:47 maybe it responds to "up" too much for its weight?
7:29 oh, that is a whole different problem then i thought
10:56 cool footage!
Ill add them in the description soon!
@Nick_FPV good to know!
You should post the stl so people can play with your work and give feedback to make it better
True... that would be pretty sick since I think my design might be a bit bodgy
I know that face at the end. "Thank god this project is over. Now I can finally rest... for now." 😆
LITERALLY HAHA
Sick video man, what do you edit on?
Premiere pro and After Effects
this is a great video with an original idea
Appreciate it man 🙏
H beam? That sir is an I Beam.
You could EASILY do this with a filament like PPA-CF. Insanely strong (stronger than pure aluminum). It's very light and super rigid.
You could definitely make a "skeletal" drone build out of that, and it would be perfectly rigid enough.
Wow it’s over $300/kg
that's crazy that a printer can print that
Incredible Video!
ThankyoU!
No way 😂 my first print was also a slice of cheese!
HAHA it's the new Benchy
what parts(electronics) did you use? im wanting to make my own drone after seeing this
:D I think from memory its a Goku F7 stack... I think.... and 1920kv motors and 03 air unit on the back... I think
TPU 72D is indestructible and flexible. Print with that.
I feel like that might be too flexy
Yeah looks cool just letting you know that they are actually called “I beams “ not H beams
Ah. You are correct HAHA
Yeah all good bro looking out for a fellow aus pilot i also have a 3d printer an can model would be cool to calibrate also Do you have a discord sever or something
First thing if you want to make something rigid make the inful higher but not to high or else it will break next is that get something like bambu lab aero filament and because it is strong and specifically made for rc planes and drones
just looked it up... that's pretty crazy
@Nick_FPV also if you are in a higher budget you should get bambu lab aero filament ASA or ABS which are strong filaments
maybe wires that power the motors are interfering with flight controller try wrapping aluminum sheet around it
Nah. It was vibration, I've run into it with my own 3D printed drones when trying to go to full size components.
Hey nick great video I was looking to do the same thing and was wondering if you were willing to share your file for the frame so I could make one to plz lmk what u think thanks!
my first fdm printer was ender and i almost lost hope in the 3d printing then i got bambu lab and its amazing and its just works
bruh Fuggen Ender is so annoying HAHA it just keeps stuffing up
3 months!!! Then you know how I feel, 14 years working on a design, it's almost ready !!!!! aaannndddd you can 3d print it 🙂Maybe you would be interested in Beta testing it?
14 years!! damn that's commitment
I think we need to start calling these "Portals" they bring things from the 2d world to the 3d world
Yea it's crazyyy
GiftedStranger for the win 😈😈
😈 yes sirrr
i was gona maybe do this project for school what materials did you use for the 3d printing maybe try abs
I used PLA
Do u know that I love ur fpv drone contents
I do now :D
@@Nick_FPV 😍😍
Tbh I think the second design is way better than the first one
sir when we get the printable files,,,,,,,,,, we are waiting
gl getting it out
huh
3:37 "that will hold nuts"
what no what 😐
@@Nick_FPV hehe it was a joke don't worry
Cool video btw
Now what? Are you planning on releasing the files? Maybe with a file that doesn't have all the holes drilled yet in some places so it can be resized and drilled later.
yea I'm gunna clean it up then upload it to Aetherfpv.com
Can you share the file so I can print this frame. It looks sick!!!
Will doooo! Ill upload it soon once I clean it up
Good Stuff!
thanks G
Maybe u could stick a metal rod in between the 3d printing cuz u can stop in between and do whatever u need to
or carbon fibre?
that's a good idea aye
nice vid ( y actualy trying the same things xD)
niceeee
You better use natural-colored PLA (no pigment). You would be surprised how sharp and stiffer it would be.
interestttinnggg
look into the new filament created by bamboo, as strong as aluminum apparently.
"PPA-CF"
you'll find it under their PET category.
Maybe some corpo in marketing found a single statistic where it actually can hold up to aluminum, but I seriously doubt it’s a practical replacement for aluminum
@ I mean for sure not directly as strong. But very strong to say the least. Seen a lot of test of hooks and chains being made with them pulling vehicles etc. crazy times we are in for sure
It’s over $300/kg tho 😮
@@mynameisben123 you know how many frames you can print with 1kg?! lol
No but seriously it is expensive, but if you were to solely dedicate it to frame building you can print enough frames to easily recoup the money invested. Buying 12 cheap $25 frame is the same amount. With horrible reliability.
iv've heard about how strong that it aye... I'd be keen to try it
PETG HF is both an affordable and durable material that will hold up much better than PLA.
btw use a drone sim maybe it would help you!
we have the same soldering iron lol
It's so good HAHA
do u think u could start production of this drone ?
it would be sick
or make a dji avatar copy that would be awesome 👍🏻👍🏻
Ah yes coolest thing ever some of the coolest people are from NSW
:D
Yo man, what drone do you use? The real fpv one and where can I get it? (The 5” one)
good job 3D printeing a drone good job
Thankyou thankyou
@@Nick_FPV im JUST AKID but ilikeit very muck
I commented a video where you were 3d printing propellors, but I'll offer again here. I build 3D printers capable of carbon and Glass fiber filaments, and would love to print you some stronger parts.
Glass and carbon are great to add more rigidity to the printed parts. Carful using it if you do nick. The glass and carbon fibers can be very small and become airborne during printing. They act the same way asbestos does on the lungs. Run the printer in a enclosed print tent and run a fan to push air out of your living area. Something like a portable ac hose and window mount works great to get it out of the house.
Damn that sounds dangerous....
Thanks man!! That honestly sounds great! I havn't got a vid yet with them in the schedule but if anything comes up ill shoot a message