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24 alternatives to I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
I made this 130 mile capable VTOL drone in only 90 days. It can fly for 3 hours on a single charge. That would make it one of the longest range and endurance 3D printed VTOLs in the world. This is the thing I'm most proud of building to date! Before this project, I was a total CAD, 3D printing and aerodynamic modeling beginner. I had only built and flown one VTOL before. SPECS Wingspan: 3.9 ft (1200 mm) Length: 2.5 ft (770 mm) Weight: 5.6 lb (2.55kg) Airframe: foaming PLA (Bambu PLA-Aero) and PETG structural parts printed on A1 printer, CFRP booms and spars Battery: Li-ion silicon anode…
This is a 3D-printed VTOL drone with a 130-mile range and 3-hour flight endurance on a single charge. The aircraft weighs 5.6 pounds and features a 3.9-foot wingspan, constructed from foamed PLA and PETG printed parts… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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How to build your own CNC machine from scratch . Contribute to maxvfischer/DIY-CNC-machine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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Capture 4k60 Cinematic FPV - Under 250 grams
2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Fuell Fluid▲170The longest range urban e-bike by legendary Erik Buell
2019 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Light Rider▲953D printed prototype for an electric motorcycle
2016 · lightrider.apworks.de · its alternatives →
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skyeye drone, skyeye uav, skyeye 2930, skyeye vtol, drone
2024 · airmobi.com · its alternatives →
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3D printing is such a fascinating field of technology, so a couple months ago, I decided to take a deep dive and learn how they actually work! This took me to one of my very first PCB projects, a small, cheap, 3D printer motherboard. While it's not the most cutting edge board, I learned a lot and I fully documented my process designing it (https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini/blob/master/J...), so other people can learn from my mistakes! It runs off of an STM32H743 MCU, has 4 TMC stepsticks with UART/SPI configurations,…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Go big, and 3D print massive parts for you next project
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Get Any Symbol & Footprint in 1 Business Day.
2016 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Fly at a speed of 450 km\h and drive on the road like a car
2022 · its alternatives →
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The jankest autonomous drone ever built and programmed from scratch - alexozer/jankdrone
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BASE by Wiivv▲151Custom, 3D printed insoles via Smartphone
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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a great and horrible idea
Aug 2026 · lukeiseman.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Flybrix▲112A crash-friendly, rebuildable drone made from Lego bricks
2016 · flybrix.com · its alternatives →
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ZMorph▲88A multi-fab 3D printer that enables fast product prototyping
2015 · zmorph3d.com · its alternatives →
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