#ConcretedogsFlightLab

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2023-04-16

Been working on this Drop Pod Parachute Deployer aka the DPPD! Need to make a better spring and then work on an onboard microcontroller system.

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2023-02-26

Remember that @FreeCAD nosecone from yesterday? Got the first prototype loaded up with a single LED and a battery, the little lengths of light pipe work well. Video doesn't capture the colours well tho!

concretedogconcretedog
2023-02-25

Hmm. I appear to have brazed glass together with plastic! Gonna try again with just one sheet of glass. :)

2 pieces of glass with petg fins sandwiched between, sadly not releasing apart!
concretedogconcretedog
2023-02-25

Little attempt to anneal some tiny fins using the glass plates I cut earlier. Lots of little developments happening in

Hand holding two roughly 10cm square glass plates. Sandwiched between them are 6 small 3D printed eliptical fins.
concretedogconcretedog
2023-02-05

Also today, my twin boom supercapacitor free flight design (article soon in Mag on @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social press ) had some flights... it does like collecting the walls though!

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2023-02-05

Fun afternoon testing out supercapacitor powered Rogallo wing models!

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2023-02-02

Working on a self deploying Rogallo wing. Whilst testing will be blowing this out of a tube, eventually it will be deployed from a small :)

concretedogconcretedog
2023-01-22

All canopied up! Ready for test chucks along with lots of other prototypes! Can't wait for the next indoor flying session.

My arm stretched out holding the large yellow 1 meter wingspan Rogallo wing prototype.
concretedogconcretedog
2023-01-22

Fun morning laying up a pattern for the larger Rogallo prototype. It's going to be ripstop just glued on for this prototype. I can imagine sewing one with sleeves and pockets down the line.

Pasting table workbench with a "ConcretedogsFlightLab" sticker on it. The bench is covered in drawing tools, some of them lasercut out of orange plastic.
concretedogconcretedog
2023-01-21

Rogallo development continues... tonight an attempt at a micro supercapacitor powered wing. Also done a bit more work on the 1m span prototype.

A tiny bamboo skewer and pedal bin liner Rogallo wing model with a stick fuselage holding a supercapacitor and motor setup.

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