12/22/23: Serial Wombat Soldering While the wings were finishing printing, I switched from the mechanical to the electrical engineering side of the project–the Serial Wombat. This is known as a Serial Wombat 18AB, and I have high hopes for it. Essentially it has its own intelligent timing circuit inside that can read several pulse widthsContinue reading “12/22/23-12/24/23: Serial Wombat 18AB, More Parts Printing”
Category Archives: Plane Project
12/21/23: Wing Printing
Winter break is here! Over the past few days, I’ve been jumping into the first difficult part of designing a 3D-printed plane: getting the wings light enough to fly. The original reason why I started over on designing the plane was to have a lighter and more simplified wing design, rather than a 36-piece screwed-togetherContinue reading “12/21/23: Wing Printing”
12/17/23: Starting Over AGAIN
I am indeed restarting from scratch on the plane for the fourth time, with entirely different design paradigms. This design has been so much simpler that I am ready to print parts already, after only about 6 hours of designing–rather than 60-ish from the previous design. Type of plane: I am going to a “float-plane”Continue reading “12/17/23: Starting Over AGAIN”
11/20/23-11/26/23: Plane Wing Assembled! + Holiday festivities
11/20/23: Plane wing assembly, finally This one’s pretty self-explanatory. Over Thanksgiving break, I finally got together the energy to screw together the 36-piece wing assembly! Took about three hours to put everything together. Looks beautiful in its mostly complete state. All I need to do now to finish the wings is screw on the sheetContinue reading “11/20/23-11/26/23: Plane Wing Assembled! + Holiday festivities”
9/27/23-11/19/23: New Fuselage Tail, Hinge Designs
9/27/23: New Fuselage Tail, redesigning entire tail Re-CAD-ed the tail piece! The main improvement is that it is now in one piece, instead of two (improved structural stability and less wobble). Another side note: currently I am in the process of redesigning the entire tail section from scratch, planning to move the elevator servo upContinue reading “9/27/23-11/19/23: New Fuselage Tail, Hinge Designs”
9/21/23-9/24/23: Part Printing Complete!!!, Linux Commands, Serial Wombat
9/21/23: Part Printing Complete 9/22/23: Linux commands Over the past couple of months, I noticed a strange pattern with the Octoprint instance: it seemed to be slowly and inexplicably running out of memory space. I tried deleting everything I could–all the cached print instruction files (Gcode), as well as all the stored timelapse videos andContinue reading “9/21/23-9/24/23: Part Printing Complete!!!, Linux Commands, Serial Wombat”
9/9/23-9/19/23: Temperature Tower, Sheet Plastic, Printing lots of Wing Parts
9/9/23: Temperature Tower Switched filament from Creality Silk Gold to Creality Clear Blue PETG today. However, the Clear Blue has completely different specs for what range of temperatures are recommended; the old gold PETG recommended anywhere from 190 to 230 C, I found 190 worked the best by far. In contrast, the new clear blueContinue reading “9/9/23-9/19/23: Temperature Tower, Sheet Plastic, Printing lots of Wing Parts”
9/8/23: New Fuselage Together: Functional
9/8: New Fuselage screwed together: functional Observation that the tolerances on the screw holes are not great; may be advantageous in the future to use an electric screwdriver maybe? Also, make sure to put filets around the screw holes so that it’s less apt to fall apart. Should have done that this time; that wouldContinue reading “9/8/23: New Fuselage Together: Functional”
9/1/23-9/8/23: Organic supports, reprinting lots of plane parts
9/1/23: Organic supports, reprinting Fuselage Forward B The second image is in the middle of the print, about 1.5 hours in. Not recommended for those with trypophobia, lol. At first made the branch density 30%, but realized 5% might have been better in this particular case. Oh well. Depends on if the branches are overlappingContinue reading “9/1/23-9/8/23: Organic supports, reprinting lots of plane parts”
8/30/23: Printing in PETG, testing Benchy’s.
Lots of failed attempts with Benchy. Mostly because the print temp was way too high (extruder 230 instead of 190 and bed 90 instead of 70), and no fan, and extruder way too fast. Now works pretty well! 8/31/23: Tower jig for Friend Y; new plane prints Very good layering; all around great print. OnlyContinue reading “8/30/23: Printing in PETG, testing Benchy’s.”
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