PLSQ Leshy

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This is a fully scripted/parametric version of the PL2Q Hugin quadcopter. I wanted to make changes, and I'm most comfortable in OpenSCAD, so I ported it. To keep with the mythological creature naming scheme, and because he's a shape shifter I called him Leshy[1]. ;) I haven't printed everything yet, but all the STLs slice fine with Slic3r (initially some STLs had problems slicing because of stupid self-intersecting facets!). For this first version, I did my best to replicate the PL2Q Hugin as closely as possible (everything is +-0.1mm) and I only added a couple things. First, I wasn't getting a strong arm with the splitting approach used for the PL2Q Hugin, so I created a coupler to connect each half. That way the joint is the strongest part of the design rather than the weakest, without much extra weight. The only other modification I made was to stamp the name "Leshy" on the canopy using the ArchitectsDaughter font from the More Fontz! project. This is the first project I have done where I did my best to follow the OpenSCAD style guide to the letter. However, when it came to writing comments, there is one thing I did differently: I combined module comments with ThingDoc comments where appropriate. If the module didn't represent a complete "thing" I didn't add any ThingDoc parameters. In any parametric project, one has to make the difficult decision of which parameters affect other parameters. By the time I was done with this I realized everything revolves around (hehe) the arms. Because of this, I designed the script in such a way that if you change the radius of the arms (say, to beef them up a bit) the canopy, motor mounts, body will auto resize to match the new dimensions. I think this was the proper way to make it work, but I'm open to suggestions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy Instructions The code is Makefile driven and hosted at:https://github.com/brad/PLSQ-Leshy Before printing, make sure you have the latest distribution of compiled files from:https://github.com/brad/PLSQ-Leshy/downloads I will try and always post the updated packages here as well. If you notice any problems or feature requests, please create an issue on Github. If you have a change you'd like me to include, I would appreciate a pull request on Github. You can always get the latest .scad files from:https://github.com/brad/PLSQ-Leshy/zipball/master I will try to keep an updated archive here as well. "make all" builds all the STL files. "make documentation" generates the documentation. thingdoc and pdflatex are required to generate the documentation. "make name_of.stl" builds a single STL. Only the STLs uploaded here are supported. Follow the instructions given in the parent to get the necessary components. This project is set up to generate documentation using ThingDoc[1], and I will flesh out the documentation as I assemble. [1] https://github.com/prusajr/ThingDoc