3D Printed Fixed Wing
Purpose
The Robotics Club is new club at CSUB and the club members saw the opporunity to work on projects through different competitions in the area such as the C-3DPAC competition at CSULA. The goal is the design and build a 3D printed plane from scratch. The plane is only allowed to have the motor on for 8 seconds and is suppose to guild the rest of the way. The competition's purpose is to test how far can these fixed wing plane glid without a motor.
Progress
So far the plane is still under revisions and is constantly being tested. The wings and tail of the plane have been confirmed to be in the final stage of development, however the body is still being tested. The wings are 5.5 ft long and the body is esimated to be 3.2ft. We have been using an air pla filament due to how light and durable the material is. This makes the filament the ideal material for the plane design. Without the batteries and motor the plane weights less than 3lbs.
Challenges
The challenges we have dealt with so far mainly has to do with the transistion from a virtual model to a physical model. The tolerances for the type of pla we are using took a little bit to get used to. The type of settings for the print also took some experiementing to figire out the lightest form of infill pattern that also has durablility.We figured out that gyroid infil pattern with a 2% infill gives the plane enough durability to with stand a flight without breaking while also keeping the plane extremely light.
Outcome
We placed 5th place out 12 teams with a time of 4.17 secs.
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