I’d keen to get a 3D printer, but two people I know have them and have never used them. (A third I know has used his loads).
What do you use yours for? Do you design things in CAD and print them? Or download stuff from libraries online?
This guy is building a full size 3D printed Porsche GT3 RS!
Please share photos of stuff you have printed with your 3D printer!
Most of the TPU parts of my quads are custom designs. My strands vary between PLA and PETG. I guess it’s about a 50/59 split on library material Vs designed.
It’s a great addition to the drone hobby especially if you enjoy the build process.
The largest print I’ve done is a Catan board. Which was a week of bed time.
I mostly print for my FPV addiction, 99.9% of which are own designs, I started off many years ago with a wooden CTC printer. I treated my self to a Bambu Lab X1C for it’s speed. I’m currently fitting out a TBS Chupito wing. Although it come with it’s own flight controller, I’ve opted to retrofit a Speedybee F405 wing controller and for RC control I’m installing Frsky TDMX RX seen in the picture the thing with a QR code.
I’ve had to workout where and how to fit an ESC and this is where being able to design custom parts that can be 3D printed or even machined comes into play.
So this was spawned in the brain box an all in one solution…
Next was to fit a pitot tube for airspeed.
Next the GPS..
I’s also been repotted that at speeds of 190mph the wing tips have deflection or twist at the tip, so I’m currently working on a 3D printed solution despite it been far easier to just add tape or laminate the wing but that would mean I don’t get to play with the printer or CAD…
So in the process of creating a wing brace…
Trading Sheep for Wood
X1C is awesome
I’ve got a QIDI S i-Mate fully enclosed desktop 3D printer, Ideal for learning with and it’s capable of ASA, ABS as it’s enclosed. anyone interested can have it for £200 ono as it’s just taking up space which I need.
Not my design…
Printed with PLA-Aero
PLA Aero | Bambu Lab UK Store.
Bambu ASA -Aero
For all you tinkerers have a look…
Hardware Parts | Bambu Lab UK Store
I’m on my third 3d printer and use them frequently.
For my needs the BambuLab A1 mini is enough, despite having a limited print plate.
It prints PLA and TPU with very high precision and great finish.
It levels the bed and works out extrusion rates automatically so it’s a lot less faff than its predecessors getting a dimensionally accurate print.
I’m just upgrading my vapor d6 to a DJI unit and will be printing the twin antenna mount and camera spacers with TPU from a free design on Thingiverse.
Well, after all those amazing projects, this will seem like a bit of an anticlimax.
I didn’t design this, but it’s the perfect example of the sort of simple ingenuity you get in the 3DP world: a Cetus X training cage!
I got it from Makerworld and I love how the designer has used the tensile strength of PLA to make a pretty tough cage using very thin and light interlocking beams.
I also tried it with TPU, but it had all the rigidity of al dente spaghetti.
Pretty cool!
