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I have conducted research on carbon safety, and I did not find any significant concerns related to skin contact with cured carbon fiber dust, except for some occasional mild allergic reactions. I believe that it is much more dangerous to operate rotary power tools with gloves. Do you have any information on the dangers of skin contact with carbon fiber dust? I always use a respirator with a particulate filter for cutting and grinding, and I ensure that all work is done outdoors. I take my PPE pretty seriously so I appreciate any tips.

@@AlenHR what do you think of nitrile or vinyl gloves? They would protect from the carbon dust and would probably snap if caught in the tool.

Hai, If I remember correctly, I used BLHeli to reverse front motors. After that, I used a standard motor layout in Betaflight. Unfortunately, my AIO FC/ESC was bugging out so I never finished tweaking the setup. Default PIDs should work to some extent.

Thanks! Yea, I think most of it comes from the racing/freestyle FPV community. They are breaking their frames all the time. For more casual flyers that do not crash as much, this technique could be viable. Production would be quite expensive, tho. But the success of the DJI FPV quad shows there is a market for more expensive "do not crash" quads. This was more of a proof of concept to me. I would like to explore it some more in the future.

SideFX Houdini. It is not made for this kind of stuff, but it worked for me. I've been using it for years professionally for game dev (VFX, procedural geometry) so I figured I'll give it a go in product design.

For releasing the part, there was some clearance between the walls of the mold when fully closed to allow for the resin to escape.

I modeled it in Houdini, so there is no CAD data. You can see the entire process in part1.

Thanks! I used a mix of slow (90min) and fast (15min) hardeners. I had plenty of time. Took me about 30mins per part so it wasn't so bad.

I had a few minor crashes from 1-2m in height on concrete. There was no damage. I filmed some of it, just need some extra shots/crashes to edit the videos. I'm planning to do it in a week or two. Depending on how hard I get sidetracked.

@@AlenHR it's cool man, forged carbon method is on my wish list rn, especially after saw easy composite vids and yours (especially the tow lining part) How strong is your resin mould tho??

TBH, I can't wait to crash that thing and see where it'll break. I'll start easy to see how it flies, and increase risk levels as I go until it breaks. That won't be that hard given my piloting skills. I would say 90% of the effort went into mold design. The rest was pretty straightforward. The layup itself was actually really fun.

Thanks, I'll compare it with a few standard 3in frames I have. After that, I'll probably break it and start working on v2.

Thanks, Yea, I just made some molds a couple of days ago. I'm trying forged carbon fiber combined with cf tow for directional strength. If strong enough, it could open many possibilities with varying thickness of frame parts. Forged one half and looks promising. It is way faster and easier to apply than laminate, and almost no post-processing is needed, just some cleanup of flash lines. I hope I'll post part 2 soon.

@@AlenHR Great! I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks my dude :D

Yea, its basic full stick roll. When added some opposite yaw stick it looks even better, aka the center point of rotation stays in the center of the screen.

Oof, thats why I'm so afraid to go over people/roads/houses, these things can drop in a sec. Once I disarmed it by accident, it fell down really close to some parked cars. I'm trying to keep low, wanna get rid of that vertical oscilations on speedups/slowdowns and in turns. Just figured out that micro throttle blips really help. Thanks for tips, gonna focus more on throttle/pitch combo.

yap, you can activate them in mid-air using trigger on your bow-holding hand..