March 6, 2018
Description
The snow is a winter-time part of a life here and I got sick of going home after every little crash or just inaccurate landing. Snow gets inside the electronics and even plastic-coated electronics gets malfunctions. I guess it's because of shortenings in parts like USB connector that isn't coated.
Well, I decided to make a canopy that will cover my build as good as possible from the snow. I'm not a designer or an artist of any sort, but I have a 3d printer and I can try.
To make sure that canopy will fit all of my components, I roughly modeled them in CAD and then made the canopy.
My build is:
Funny that the result looks like little piggy, it even has a pig tail ;) I'm thinking to draw a piggy nose on camera lens cap... So I named it "The piggy".
I'm still in process of fitting everything together while waiting for next revision of the design with small fixes printed. Will post real photos of my quad after that. There are renders for now
Posted a photos of sucessfully assembled quad. The Piggy is in the air! =)
UPDATE 2018-07-01
UPDATE 2018-05-21
UPDATE 2018-03-13
Version 2.1:
UPDATE 2018-03-12
Version 2:
Feel free to make holes or reshape it for your components, just dont forget to share your results here as a remix ;)
Here are the links to Fusion 360 projects:
30 deg: http://a360.co/2D63o3M
40 deg: https://a360.co/2D2Uqbk
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike