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3D printed Quadrotor (TEGO v2)

3D printed Quadrotor (TEGO v2)

By Aldux

Do you remember TEGO??? It was involved in a small accident during the Glasgow Science Festival… and one of the arms was not able to continue fighting 🙁

But, for my fortune, I have to my disposition a awesome Makebot Replicator 2, and appart of making combs and lots of useless things, the main objetive of this printer is to do this kind of stuff… so, at this instance I want to test the feasibility of using a 3D printer to make things fly, so I started printing.

The main body parts were easy to peel off the platform, but the arms were a CHALLENGE… I broke 2 of them trying to peel them off. And then I had to tear appart TEGO (ESC, motors, cables, FC, everything) and put it in the new frame. I did a small video testing the frame, it vibrates a little bit, but in general is ok, now with this experience, I’ll procede to make my own frame with a especial mechanical connector I found on the internet!!! 😉 Keep posted!!!!

TEGO Micro quad

TEGO Micro quad

By Aldux

This is a quadrotor build intended for making quick tests and flights of FC, so far this cool and nice quad has tested 3 different FC…

Its a PCB frame, 250mm from rotor to rotor, the ESC are directly welded to it, and it contains:

  • Turnigy T1811 (2900kv) brushless motor
  • Turnigy ESC 6 amps
  • 5×3 props
  • 1500mah NanoTech LiPo

TEGO v1 2

In the flight controller department I have succesfully tested:

  • NanoWii
  • MW and Megapirate AIO
  • MicroWii ATMEGA32UA

Its really easy to crash it if your PID settings are not correctly fixed on the FC… Always remembet to use the GUI of MultiWii.

I have broken the arms in several occasions, but a little bit of cyanoacrylate does the work for it 😉

Its a nice frame, easy to build, and cheap.