DJI’s Phantom 4 with its sleek body, integrated camera and long flying range make it the perfect search drone. Now you can use Shapeways 3D printing to turn it into the ultimate rescue drone.
Shapeways and DJI want you to push the drone boundaries and help save lives. Your challenge should you choose to accept it: design an attachment for a DJI Phantom 4 which can be used to help first responders better serve the public in their search and rescue efforts. In addition to the satisfaction of a job well done, the grand prize is a DJI phantom 4 and $1000 in Shapeways printing credits. The winning design will also be demonstrated at the New York City Makerfaire this October.
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Is it possible a scan to STEP or Parasolid can be made available for designing to? The STL has too many faces for SolidWorks to open as a solid body and can only be opened as a graphics body which is useless for SW.
we can try to decimate faces on the file more but due to how its scanned you cannot easily converted to a STEP or Parasolid from the original pointcloud. If you have access to Geomagic it can do the conversion for you.
A few days ago 3D Systems released a Geomagic plugin for SolidWorks. See here: http://www.3dsystems.com/press-releases/3d-systems-makes-bringing-scan-data-solidworks-easier-ever-geomagicr-solidworksr
Does this have to be 100% printed? My concept uses some carbon fiber rods, cut to length and glued into printed parts, is this OK?
As long as the 3D printing is incorporated you can use other materials as well. If we demonstrate the part you’ll need to supply to additional materials and assemble yourself.