[Hackupy-discuss] oakland occucopter meeting and developments

[sam reese]

On both counts, Hell Yes. Tricopters appear to be a very cool design,
I am very excited to see how your build will come, as well as the
flying stability of the tri. It has a lot of theoretical advantages
over a quad-rotor design.

As to lightweight hardwoods: also a hell yes. good woods are amazingly
strong, vibration dampening, and can be turned into a
ghetto-carbon-fiber with the addition of wood-glue. (Im not kidding:
wood glue impregnated balsa is amazingly strong).

We used aluminium because we're a metal shop, and we had a bunch of
it, and I'm pretty good at working with it. On a more pragmatic side,
having a stronger and heaver frame should stabilize the system while
we learn to fly the damnable thing, and should also give us greater
resilience when we wreck the thing.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Joachim Pedersen <joachimp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to build a soonish tricopter based on these plans:
> http://www.rcexplorer.se/projects/tricopterv25/tricopterv25.html
>
> Have you guys looked a using natural materials, i.e. light weight
> wood, like the above build? Wood is great at absorbing energy when it
> comes to hard landings. It is also much better at reducing vibrations
> from the motors, which can lead to strange artifacts in the digital
> video.
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> -Joachim
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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:55, J Gingold <uhlume at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've done business with HobbyKing.com before -- they're pretty low-frills,
>> but completely legit.
>>
>>  - J
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:34 AM, sam reese <skibumperspective at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I've purchased the four matched ESCs and motors as well as the
>>> batteries, using the ever-jankey looking HobbyKing.com, so I'll be
>>> reporting soon on them either living up to the redonkulus good deals
>>> they post on their site, or being shysters.
>>>
>>
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