Umm, so I spent the day, trying to put the wing through a wind tunnel(cfd sim), cause I was a bit doubtful, if the wing was even gonna produce any lift, as the mean chord of the wing is just 10 cm. But then I ran into this prob, I dunno want to do, if you guys know what this below error is all about, please tell me, for now Im stuck with this.
I didn’t do much today, except figure out how to make the slots for the hinges for both the ailerons as well as the elevator. I also smoothened to body so that the resistance in the air reduces.
I finished all the clasping joints, and also the other two pictures besides the colorful one down below, are the ailerons and the elevators. You prolly couldn’t tell, and that’s not your fault, so I am gonna try to fix it tomorrow. I also optimized the parts that are gonna get printed separately. The v-stab and the h-stab was also made today. That’s about it for today I guess. You may now go to sleep.
Firstly, I am soo glad that StarDance got extended by another month, cause my exams are over!! I started a new project, cause I am still waiting for the gods to review my project from the last month. Anyway, I started off with the fuselage, and the wing for my RC plane!! I am model it in such a way, that all the parts simply slip in and hold tightly with a tiny bit of glue. So yeah, that’s it for today. I did start off strong if you ask me.
This is my final post for the year!! (I think)
I just gave a few final finishing touches to the car, and now the foundation is ready. This is the completed car and gearbox in all its glory:-
Firstly, I spray-painted the car and then spent a bit of time on improvising the axle mount to house a 696 bearing as well for more freedom. I also assembled the chassis, sadly I couldn’t record it because I was trying to complete it in between my 40 page math project that I was writing. But I will give you full context.I started with the attaching the two chassis plate together with a connector and screwing it in, and then many parts when screwed in, and voila it is ready, It only took about 30 min of my homework time anyway.
And also sadly, this will be my last devlog for the year!! I am sooo sad, IDK WHY MY EXAMS HAD TO BE NEXT WEEK?!?!?
I basically switched from onshape to blender FOR TODAY (hopefully), cause for some reason onshape just doesn’t wanna let me edit imported files and also bombards me with the most obnoxious amount of unwanted facetting. I tried to give the tiny details required for the car, but then decided than I will do the changes physically, cause I genuinely DO NOT know how to use blender, I was so used to onshape and now it deserted me :(
I spent the day learning the basics of blender.
This is me with no idea what I am doing —>
(I couldn’t get a good photo.) :)
I basically tested the tires for any ballooning, and they did not dissapoint, (IDK what I was expecting from that hard of a plastic, after all, I used PLA to print it). I used my old plane’s fuselage as a testing rig, as it literally had everything I needed- A 1800kv motor to reach about 19000rpm, a rigid coroplast frame for me to hold on to the motor, a 2200mah battery, a 30w esc, and last but not the least a servo tester. I ran the wheel, at max throttle, and this is what I found-
1)The wheel design is really rigid laterally (wonderphul)
2)The wheel WILL NOT HOLD ON WITH HOT GLUE.
3)You also can’t forget to balance the wheel, as there are too many vibrations for my liking.
And yes, my dad did hold it when testing, as I couldn’t record and test at the same time.
So, I basically completed puttying the car. For those who don’t know, putty is like a cement kinda thing and “ing” is usually a continuous tense. So that means I was addING(continuous tense) cement-like stuff to the car in the PAST (past tense). I am definitely getting worried if I am going to be able to complete it or not.
The prototype is halfway through. (That’s probably it, there is nothing else I can say.)
:-)
I basically, worked on attaching some of the 3d printed parts today, and this is where I stopped at as I also have unfinished homework. I hope to finish building this prototype Porsche by day after tomorrow so I will have a clear time gap to make changes, complete the gearbox aaand ship it. I hope to ship the thing by 20th or else I am COOOOKED(with 4 O’s).
This is a demo website I built, you can visit to know what and how I am gonna be achieving overdrive in an rc car like the one I am building. I also switched from using my own completely custom body and chassis and I realized that I’d rather not do this for 69 hrs straight for the next 67 days, so I chose cormango’s Porsche 911 model that he has already made(IDK how he made it sooo detailed). I am also not going to be copy pasting every single thing he has modelled as It does not have active aero, so I will have to look into that tomorrow maybe. I have also 3d printed half the parts of the prototype Porsche that I am currently going to be using as the body shell.
I couldn’t do anything productive today, I basically only did “research”.
WHEEL-ARCHES, WHEEL-ARCHES, WHEEL-ARCHES,
I know it looks a bit goofy for now, but trust the process.
I COMPLETED THE CHASSIS! (This is the under-side).
I managed to kinda complete the active aero(not done yet.)
I completed the basics for the rc hyper-car
I made the gears that will go in the differentials, I still have to start the casing.
I completed designing the gearbox, so it’s time to print it
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