3D Hubs's Own 3D Printed Drone: Part 2

[victorp]

Hi guys,

After a nice teaser a while back, about our x0mb1e drone project from @CobraGad, I think it’s more than time to give you an update.

So here I am again, this time with all the parts printed and ready to assemble!

Here they are, in our lab with the Leapfrog, BeeTheFirst and Zmorph (from @ZMorph3D), waiting to be assembled!

Took me quite a long time to get all these printed, because I was working on other projects and experimenting with Carbon Fiber Filament. However if you have a well calibrated printer, with the right settings dialed in and a decent build volume, I guess you can print all of the 24 parts in 2 or 3 batches.

All the parts were printed with XT-CF20 filament from @ColorFabb on our Leapfrog Creatr HS:

• Speed : 50mm/s (no so HS in fact)
• Flow : 105%
• Temp : 250°C
• Layer height : 0.1mm
• Infill : 50% for most of the part, 100% for the thinner one (Legs)
• Cooling : 20% (any higher value gives an horrible mess for me…)

All printed without support, I have to say that the design is really optimized for 3D printing ! Awesome job @CobraGad !

For those who printed with this filament already, feel free to share yours for comparison!

I find XT-CF20 to be a really nice material once you get the right settings for your printer. It’s really stiff and remains quite light !

Talking about weight, here is the total of all the 3D printed parts (W/O electronics) in grams :

For comparison, we received the battery the other day. Seriously we thought it was a mistake in the order. We double checked aaand… it’s not.

This drone is gonna be a freaking war machine !

So basically the weight of the whole structure is not even the weight of this monstrous battery…

We are still waiting to receive the propellers. They’re due in about 1 week.

Next, we’re gonna talk about electronics & miscellaneous parts, then the assembly and the first flight, of course!!

Stay tuned

Anybody else 3D printing a drone out there? Let me know in the comments below!

Cheers,

Victor

[petervl]

awesome work Victor! really looking forward to seeing it fly.

[victorp]

Thanks Pete !

Me too, but we probably have to order some security Helmet before flying it in the office

[cbale92]

Sweet! Gif-packed, just how I like it

[gabriela3d]

Woohoo glad to see things coming together nicely Nice work, Victor!

[CobraGad]

Awesome! Great work Victor! I can send you the new ardupilot controller configuration if you wish. We have already tested it and everything is working great.

[TangibleCR]

As you know I have been working on my drone too!!
I am turning my drone into an RC car. I will post some pictures soon.

[SarahKlerks]

awesome! and +1 for the gifs!

[koenbodewes]

Nice one!

[KrazyJim]

On the Xombie site the home page is filled with

We’re sorry, this content cannot be displayed.

Please try again later.

No links to download.

Site is very disappointing.

[gabriela3d]

@CobraGad, are you able to help with this?

[CobraGad]

I am entering right now from my PC and my android phone and everything seems to work fine. I was able to download files at http://www.thex01project.com/ If you could please be more specific about the problem.

[KrazyJim]

Just tried the site today again. See the attachment for a screen grab.

[CobraGad]

For downloading parts go to the download button (not follow us on social media button). Also that seems to work on mine. Check my attachment.