A Tensegrity Micro Quadcopter
Is this the world's smallest tensegrity quadcopter? It uses a HubSan X4 quadcopter with a carbon rod tensegrity frame around it so as to be as light as possible. In order to make this I had to go through several evolutions and spreadsheets of component weights in order to find a combination of materials and techniques that would be light enough to fly. My first evolution was completely 3d printed with larger elastic bands, which proved much too heavy. After that, I tried 20cm carbon rods and settled on 3d printed end caps to hold smaller elastic bands, which I had to cut and tie together to make them long enough to work. My original idea was to mount the motors directly to the carbon sticks in order to reduce weight and also to de-couple the flight controller sensors from the motor vibrations. This was my main idea behind this build. I thought that separating the flight controller from the motors and not having them on a rigid frame would greatly reduce the vibration noise fro...
