You know you're doing a great job, OP, when the peanut gallery here has nothing more substantial to add than to critique your em-dashes; greek-latin root word mix-ups despite the common vernacular having moved on from that; and lack of title brevity.
Congratulations --- this is a super cool project. I wonder if you've considered using ultralight filaments and 3dprinting the frame? PLA is stiff but brittle, and I know Bambu and a few others sell specialised versions that supposedly weigh less than normal.
Most filament based printed frames end up with really nasty resonance; it’s possible to engineer damping around the issue with some clever 3D design if the parameters of the prints are measured, but overall 3D printing copter frames doesn’t tend to be a straightforward solution.
I wish we had some standard filament testing that most manufacturers were willing to provide results for.
Until that happens, this guy here is probably the next best thing: https://www.youtube.com/@MyTechFun
Plot twist: many of the "special" filaments aren't special at all or at least very exaggerated.
Yes. And when your design is simply beautiful as this is:
https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/drone-img/05-30-26/cnc_c...
I agree with your first point.
The milled fiberglass the author used is a much better UAS frame material than anything from a filament 3d printer due to stiffness and related considerations.
Oh no doubt. I'm no drone expert!
It's good thing you threw in that suggestion then!
<reads blog post of engineer building a small scale internal combustion engine>
I wonder if you've considered making the piston rods out of legos?