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Design, Cut, and Lay Out the Frame
Posted by YouMadeMeDoIt,
19 June 2012
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quad quadcopter scratch built aluminum wood
Ok, so now I'm fully addicted to building these machines. Whenever I'm walking through a store of any kind, I find myself looking at items and wondering if they could be incorporated into a multirotor frame in some manner.
My excuse for building this frame is that I need a smaller frame that I can teach my wife and brother to fly on. Since I already have a primary fun frame, and a nice heavy lifter -- I wouldn't want to wreck any of them. So I simply had to build one more so that I always have a primary, a backup, and a teaching frame. The design was something inspired a bit by the quad pictured at the bottom of the page, and I will also be adding the second level as inspired by the Iconix-X and the QAV500 FPV Frames.
The motors will be 14.375" across from each other or 20.3293" diagonally. Here's where it's at so far:
My excuse for building this frame is that I need a smaller frame that I can teach my wife and brother to fly on. Since I already have a primary fun frame, and a nice heavy lifter -- I wouldn't want to wreck any of them. So I simply had to build one more so that I always have a primary, a backup, and a teaching frame. The design was something inspired a bit by the quad pictured at the bottom of the page, and I will also be adding the second level as inspired by the Iconix-X and the QAV500 FPV Frames.
The motors will be 14.375" across from each other or 20.3293" diagonally. Here's where it's at so far:
This commercially produced quad (Shrike by Aerovironment) served as part of the inspiration for the build:
