Working 3D printed helicopter blades

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Martijn Elserman

What do you do when you have your Ultimaker, you start experimenting.
Taylor Alexander did some experiments and printed some very precise thin parts, rotor blades for his helicopter and they work perfectly. Whats next a bigger helicopter maybe?

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4 Responses to Working 3D printed helicopter blades

  1. Taylor Alexander says:
    January 25, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    Hah! This is getting blogged about everywhere! Awesome. :-)
    Thanks guys!
    Taylor

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  2. Yura says:
    February 2, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    What is the weight difference without balancing?

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  3. Peter says:
    February 16, 2012 at 2:46 am

    Nice! I like flying things.
    I have designed and printed a entire working quadcopter on my ultimaker.
    Its on thingivers, “PL1Q Vampire”

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