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TrainingSphere - 7 - A new frame

amgalbu
amgalbu
19 Aug 2015

In my previous post I showed some photos of a frame made of steel wires. I found out this design to be absolutely faulty because it was not rigid enough to dampen vibration induces by motors and propellers.

So I started with a new frame frame made of U-shaped aluminum profiles. The final result is shown here

 

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The U-shaped profiles are joined using 0.5 mm-thick aluminum sheet

 

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At the bottom, two servos and the battery are located. The control surfaces are made with a 0.5mm aluminum sheet

 

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At the top, there is the Raspberry board. The board is mounted on a plywood base that should absorb vibrations, and kept in placed by four rubber rings ( as suggested by this tutorial)

 

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Finally here is the counter-rotating motors

 

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Now I need to mount and connect all the electronic components (ESC, BEC, receiver)

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  • amgalbu
    amgalbu over 10 years ago in reply to screamingtiger +1
    Hi Joey The complete drone (including all the electronic components, batteries, etc) weighs 845 grams, which is much than I initially expect Cheers Ambrogio
  • amgalbu
    amgalbu over 10 years ago in reply to screamingtiger

    Hi Joey

    The complete drone (including all the electronic components, batteries, etc) weighs 845 grams, which is much than I initially expect

     

    Cheers

    Ambrogio

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  • screamingtiger
    screamingtiger over 10 years ago

    How much does that weigh?

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  • DAB
    DAB over 10 years ago

    Definitely an interesting design.

     

    DAB

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 10 years ago

    Welcome back Ambrogio!

     

    I bet it can fly

    I was "aficionado" to the sphere concept image ! Frankly I though that it was the external side of something like this (or cylindrical) inside, a rigid structure supporting the flying stuff.

     

    Look forward to see the next progress.

     

    Enrico

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    tomaja over 10 years ago

    This looks very promising!

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