A Tensegrity Micro Quadcopter, Part 2
I've been playing around with my tensegrity quadcopter a bit more and I've come to the conclusion that this configuration works best. The video above shows a tensegrity frame made out of 20cm carbon rods with 3D printed end tips, string and 3D printed string tensioners holding it all together. This is an advancement on my last post where the frame wasn't tensioned properly. I'm quite impressed with my design for the tensioners, which was done using OpenSCAD. Due to the weight restrictions, I needed to find a way of tensioning the wires without adding too much weight. The whole thing needs to weigh about 50g and my final evolution of tensioner is only 0.2g. I think I've got about six of them tightening up the frame so this one doesn't wobble like in the last video. The tensioner in OpenSCAD. About 32mm long and 2mm thick. The model is called "tensioner2" in my Tensegrity GitHub Repository . All I do is to hook one end around the string, wrap the strin...
