Kramers tricopter step by step
Kramer's Documentation at end of day one 1/31/15 essentially unintelligible, but I'm tired.
- Legs
- sanded Legs
** Assemble Motors *** attach the bottom braket *** get counter sink side correct ** Attach 2 non*servo motors to legs *** opposite side of screw holes *** align wires with opening *** use small cutout to enclose wires within leg slot **** could glue *** zip tie in place
*** Zip tie and connect speed control *** will need to determine direction after build by running the motor and noting direction so don't make permanent
** drill and file 3D printed gimble mount *** use a screw and glue the end to make gimble pivot
*** use super glue ** screw motor on 3D printed mount *** may need to drill to fit *** align wires away from base end
** Attach servo *** use drill to reverse counter sink screw hole to get a flush connection *** cut two edges of servo star to fit *** ensure full range of motion and attach star to servo *** superglue to gimble
** Attach gimble and servo to leg *** Found out I made a mistake in how the wires were aligned with cutout on leg **** inscrewed and screwed *** use zip ties *** used super glue for spacer after zip tie
** zip tie and connect speed controller
- Put the screws in a center piece and attach legs putting the gimbled leg in the center
** use shorter 1 1/4 inch screw on inside for gimbled leg ** attach so that the motors face down and the wires are accesable
- connect wires together in middle using solder and speaker wire
** pigtail all negative and positive from the speed controllers *** cut and strip black and red wires *** cut and strip speaker wire *** cut shrink wrap and solder wire red to red black to black
*** lighter for shrink wrap *** combine all neg and wire to neg for final wire *** do the same for pos *** don't forget skrink wrap(large) ** Extend all control wires ** only the white wire from the two legs without the gimble ** all three from the gimble ** leave about 4 inches past the hole through the center section to the top ** takes a while; don't forget the shrink wrap ** attach the top plate ** I messed up the side I soldered the large wires and had to flip the legs to make the bottom plate the top