Spring Break has come and gone, but at least it wasn’t an unproductive vacation. I got many things done, includingthree planes and several minor projects and videos. Here are the planes:
Kite Aerial Photography Rig
My famous kite aerial videography rig, and how I constructed it.
Tricopter Build Log: 3
I did so much today! And I am really tired because of it. First off, I started the day off with my printer. I printed out the rest of the parts for the tricopter as well as redesigning and reprinting a new body. While that was being printed I dismantled my old tricopter 🙁 it was sad. But[…]Read More
Tricopter Build Log: 1
After 4 long weeks I finally got all the parts for my tricopter in the mail. I finished the designs recently and am now printing all the pieces out on my Makerbot. Here are some pictures: The build is is moving along quite nicely. I only expect to do a few of these posts because[…]Read More
Firework Detonator Box
Every Fourth of July, my parents, brother, and I drive up to my grandparents house to celebrate the holiday. Well when we light off firework it can be a bit dangerous, so I made this… This is my home made electronic firework detonator. It is built into a Pelican Storm case and the panel in[…]Read More
TEC (The Egg Car)
For a school project we had to build a car that an egg could fit in and survive some pretty rough battering. My teams design won and survived a 10 pound bowling ball being dropped on it from a hight of six feet. This is what it looked like after all that:If you would like[…]Read More
Firework Detonator Wiring Diagram
This is a wiring diagram of my Firework Detonator Box. A couple quick things that it doesn’t really explain is that, you can make any layout for the switches, as long as you wire it in this way. There is a connector in-between the lights and the box, so they can be taken of and[…]Read More
Tricopter Build Log: 4
Okay today is the day I will finish the tricopter V2. Lets begin. I started out by mounting what kkmulticopter blueboard with somedouble sided stick tape. Then I printed out a cove to protect it. After that I mounted all the motors and ESCs after I soldered on all the connectors. I mounted[…]Read More
Tricopter Build Log: 2
So I finished printing the body today and I drilled all the holes in the arms so I could put it all together. Here is an animation:
Kite Aerial Photography
Many of you may have seen the videos of Ormond beach from above, well here is how I did it. If you haven’t seen the videos go to my videos page under Categories To make the mount I simple used the base of the box the GoPro comes in. I drilled holes on all four corners[…]Read More
Heart Gear
It was recently mothers day and I wanted to make my mom the best present in the world. So since I have a 3D printer I went to Thingiverse and found the Heart Gears by emmett and printed all 8 pieces (which took about 4 hours). The video speaks for itself, and my mom loved it.
Air Cannon Projectiles
The projectiles on the far left are actually shot out of the cannons 1.5″ barrel, except for the end cap which is screwed onto the end of the barrel, after the barrel has been filled with water, to make the cannon a giant water gun. The tube in the middle does not get shot out[…]Read More