Spacewalk 550 FPV / UFO quadcopter Belly Cover (Cable cover)

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I have a quadcopter with the popular Spacewalk FPV 550 frame. The exposed ESC and power cabling underneath always concerned me. Far too easy to short out on a metal surface. Then I added a gimbal controller which also lives on the belly, so I decided it was time to print a cover plate. It's only 1mm thick so it weighs next to nothing, and it's intentionally flexible so it can bend round cables etc. This allows the space between the belly of the quad and the plate to be fixed at 1cm which allows for a LOT of messy cables, but doesn't protrude too far. The plate will then flex to accommodate any lumps! The "latches" are printed with support material already designed in. What looks like 2 little holes in each latch should be a continuous slit that goes half way into the latch. When you print it, just use a knife or junior hack saw to remove the material which will leave a "slot" in each latch. These slots grip onto the quadcopter frame and hold the plate on with tension. This used nearly all of a 200mm print bed. No problem on an i3.