UFO Project

pyronaught · Post by **pyronaught** » Tue May 26, 2015 8:06 pm

Getting closer on my flying saucer project. I got the high powered LEDs wired up now with the transparent diffuser domes that I talked about somewhere else on this forum. The picture was too cool not to share, I can't wait to get this thing spinning around up in the air. There's still the formidable task of reprogramming the AVR on a stock KK2 quad board in order to pull this off though, so several months before that ever happens.

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Bratag · Post by **Bratag** » Tue May 26, 2015 8:18 pm

I want to believe!

pyronaught · Post by **pyronaught** » Tue May 26, 2015 8:32 pm

Bratag wrote:I want to believe!

Oh, when I get the larger version built which has the laser cone tractor beam going to the ground, you WILL believe! Fruit of the Loom is also going to see a regional spike in sales

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Tue May 26, 2015 8:34 pm

Awesome! I can see the headlines now....."Mars Attacks!"

(That little whimper you heard was just my ego....ignore it.)

pyronaught · Post by **pyronaught** » Wed May 27, 2015 12:31 am

Here's the printed controller housing that sits on top. I call it the octopus.

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jimc · Post by **jimc** » Wed May 27, 2015 2:19 am

oh man the feds are gonna come get you!

pyronaught · Post by **pyronaught** » Wed May 27, 2015 4:13 am

jimc wrote:oh man the feds are gonna come get you!

Actually I'm hoping it will be the Men in Black.

lem · Post by **lem** » Wed May 27, 2015 5:10 pm

Watch out for that "flashy thing."

Dale Reed · Post by **Dale Reed** » Thu May 28, 2015 1:20 am

... then lose the dorky glasses, get out of your mom's house, and take your girlfriend on a REAL vacation.

pyronaught · Post by **pyronaught** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:03 am

Getting closer on the saucer, hopefully this is the final design. Ditched the KK flight controller board and am using MultiWii now. All four rotors are tilt rotors with 180 degree range, printed in PETG and strong as hell. I took a hinge apart and put the pieces on an anvil while beating them with a brass hammer-- did not crack any of them. Even tried busting off the fingers, which you would think would break along the layer lines but they did not. Also pounded on the thin edges of the motor platform thinking that would crack off, but nope. That PETG is tough as nails! The diffusion dome on the light is PETG too, but the base is ABS. The lights clip onto the load ring and have pass-through connectors for stringing them in series.

The only thing left now is modifying the Arduino code that runs the Multiwii controller, since there are no stock multirotor configurations that work for this design.

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Here's the CNC machine I built from scratch, which is heat sealing the gas bag for the saucer seen above.

https://youtu.be/6VBWH7SMCBc

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