Kategorie: Project: The Tick

Today one of my friends showed me the propulsion of his quadcopter. In the end I am thinking of changing the whole concept. His motors are much bigger than mine and the ESC are bigger too but will offer much more spare power to the tick. In the end there is a overpowered but not underpowered hexa style copter which has much more energy reserves to go up in the sky. The next step is to change the arm design to fit everybodies needs and several motor combinations. As long as I am over the design there are more influences coming into every part. I want to fit everybodies needs so you are able in to go with your choice of motors to get the most out of it. Please understand that this is not an easy idea but to introduce a versatile frame with the most options like THE TICK we try to do the best job…

I am changing the whole design to fit motors  with a diameter of maximum 27mm´s to comfort everyone out there. So there are thousands of possibilities of motor and esc combinations. This will make it possible to get the most options out of everything and get in advance of the specs.

Hi guys,

while testing around with some prototypes and different materials there is one material which I found out has awesome characteristics. So the new plan is to make a mixture of different materials inside the tick to get the best performance and specs out of it. Today the first arm is done and so far I can say the arms will be the key to the goal. The knowledge we will bring into every piece will get the most power out of this beast.

But I know with every milestone reached there is more work coming because I have to go into more details. The plan is in my head and for parts captured already in files. I hope to get a first prototype of the new tick´s body the next few weeks. I don´t know how much weight the frame will have but it will be one of the lightest frames in this class ever. In this class? There is no other frame as I know so far which has the options like our Tick…

Hi folks,

With every part I am redesigning to fit my needs and to get the most efficeincy out of it there are more changes to the design. When I had the idea of this beast in May 2015 I did not know how much work and money wasting this will cause. I knew that it will be a hard way to make an innovation like this but like that?… No, for sure.
Everything takes time but my job kills most of my personal daily power and in the evening after work to go into designing, construction and milling is really a breathtaking action. Thanks to my girlfriend Neciel and my friends to support me and not being seriously mad about this.

Back to topic… I redesigned the arms today. One of the worst things in a sandwich design is that the supporting plates will fall off when you disassemble the sandwich. I hate this kind of things, especially on my django. It happened not often to take it apart but when you have to do actions for maintenance on a frame designed with these weak bugs you know what I am talking about. You will rack your nerves and it requires nerves of steel to achieve to get the model back in working condition.

To prevent this the new design won’t produce lacks like that. Everyone who will own this frame will be happy to select my the tick-design. Sorry for not getting deeper into that heavy innovations. Because of this there are less screenshots and design drawings nowadays. But the final design is near. I bought cheaper material for preproduction samples and soon the miling will begin. Stay tuned and thanks for all supporters… We will get it real!

I thought about crowdfunding for this kind of frame but I am not sure to start an action like that now. There is only a really simple preproduction frame of the tick but with astonishing flying capabilities yet. The actual preproduction sample is hovering in a tiny room with full gimbaled gopro and no gps and it is really easy to control. In the end I will try to introduce two versions: one with the gimbaled camera and one without gimbal for racing. Everybody can choose what will fit his/her needs when it is final. But the gimbaled will be done first because it is much harder to design.

This is what happens after half year pausing the project due to different other important things…

So what will these drawings tell me (not you outside there)? It is easy: at the moment these are done there where more than 5 beers on the game too but this means that I will change the whole setup to get it much more lighter than before and much more aerodynamic which means less air turbulences. The next step is to get the cnc mill ready. One milestone os done since this morning. I had a holiday today that’s why I decided to set up the mill finally. All axis are working well now. Next I have to go deeper into CAD and CAM to bring in the changes of the last weekend.

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For the last 3 weeks I am waiting for my new tool – a portal milling machine to perfect the hexa copter called The Tick. The guys around me are not able to finish the construction  for more than 3 months. I decided end of August to purchase a milling machine which is able to finish the work on my frames. The setup was proved 3 month ago as a good solution so I can go forward with much more optimized constructions with this machine. I hope to get a perfect solution until end of this year because I’lI plan to go for a trip around the world with this hexacopter… See the first 2 prototypes which will get finished the next few weeks…