Found this beautiful tri-copter while prowling diydrones made by Peter Koppendorfer called KAMCOP. It features 6x 350W motors and a custom carbon fiber shell with a transparent plastic dome in front with a pan-tilt camera. Excellent design and professional finish. Envy!
Will serve as an inspiration if I ever get around to build one for my self.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Lots of nice build plans
Need plans? planes, tanks, ships, engines John-Tom seems to have a little bit of everything. Bad ass Sherman and Tiger scale tanks with BB guns fitted amongst other things. Will have revisit to prowl his magnificent collection of projects and plans. Might a be interesting source of stuff to printing in 3D.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
How to paint my SUMPOD?
So while waiting for my SUMPOD someone asked for a template to try out different color variations before buying paint. So did just that using Gimp. The result is a poor mans hack but it works. You can pretty much just select the color of the base and carrier by coloring a couple of layers and it turned out pretty nice.
You can find the template here for gimp in .xcf format and a .psd export here I made but haven't tested at all.
Here you see a few examples I made using the template.
I seem to be favoring a blue unit with completely white interior, not just the surface carrier, unlike the picture shown here. The white will increase the visibility inside the build chamber to better see the details during a build. I saw a TOM in action the other day where there where problem's with the feeder while using transparent plastic. Being able to clearly see what was being layered down seemed useful.
Edit: added a new layer for the inside of the template
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