3D printing isn't just about prototyping, it can also be used to produce unique parts that couldn't be manufactured 'easily' by any other method. As far as I am aware (correct me if I am wrong), the hollow ducts of this hovercraft frame couldn't be manufactured in ONE piece using any other manufacturing technique.
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I tried making an rc hovercraft way back by repurposing cheap rc car parts and a cardboard frame. Not quite powerful enough. Now that I've got a so far unused 3d printer sitting on a shelf I might give this another try. Great video.
Using starlite filament? :D
use a garbage bag or something dont use starlite filament its to thick
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Your design is so perfect! Everything just fits and it makes me so happy. Can you do a video in the future where you show us your workflow when designing something like this?
Dual rudder for sure- Your hovercraft is working perfectly if it is hard to control (that was an interesting rudder hack and yes throttle=steering)! As a long time hovercraft enthusiast it takes practice and some nerve to pilot and even with many years experience things can get dicey ;)
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Your projects never disappoint. Love the research you put in and explain to us. Nice job Tom!
Just from an industrial design point of view only that model is truly an elegant design. The integrated servo mount and wire channels are a step above! Well done sir.
Probably nothing you haven't heard before - amazing design, great print, great idea and amazing execution - 10/10 - simply awesome!
You could make a 3 rudder design where the middle rudder pivots and the outer two rudders are simply attached to the middle rudder and set backwards a bit making a diamond formation which will allow full range of rotation your original single rudder has.
Super impressive Tom. Love how you go through the troubleshooting throughout the video and you also take the time to add some graphics (turbulence, air vectors, etc)... keep it up!
Oh, very nice! Looking forward to trying this one out! Thanks Tom!
That servo and motor mount using one bolt is a truly beautiful thing! An engenius design! I love it!
Absolutely brilliant!!
Looks great! I hope you try version 2 over water :)
There are few things more satisfying to watch than a bin bag skirt hovercraft rise up from the ground the first time you tried it out. I even clapped a little bit I think :) Well done mate!
I love how you approach everything as an engineer! Congrats! Keep it up!
Your videos are so well made. Your explanation is not only informative but preemptively assumes all arguments.
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It´s true, isn´t it? Tom offers a unique type of "thinking man´s" flight-based RC vid, well laced with 3D printing and leavened with plenty of concise yet thorough explanations. It was his superb video on vortex generators (on a VTOL) that got me hooked on his channel and I´ve had my day improved by each and every video he´s posted ever since.
could not agree more!
You can tell that Tom carefully researches a good proportion of the theory behind his projects.
I agree
I watch many RC plane channels and multi rotor channels and yours is right at the top of my list. You and FliteTest are the best. Keep up the great work you are doing.
David Bischof Flite Test dropped significantly on my list when they lost the European. I really enjoyed his stuff
TissuePaper the Swedish guy? yeah I miss him
I hope you have PeterSripol on your list also.
Peter siprol too
There are a number of 3d printed hovercraft, but this one is far superior in terms of design and elegance! Great work!
Very good, Tom! Your modified rudder WAS a big improvement! Dual rudders would be great but that's a major alteration so I think you did a very good job. Having a 3d printer definitely helps too!! Thanks man!
Awesome, brave enough to give it a go on water?
Colin Hickey He needs to waterproof the electronics
HB You mean spray them with two coats of the spray-on polyurethane he almost absolutely has in his workshop?
TissuePaper that is still waterproofing it.
Appreciate he would need some water proofing, kind of a given.
I would've loved to give this a go, not on water but at the moment the loch near where I live has iced over. Would be fantastic to see it out on that.
for extensive tail rudder testing, you might want to make a removable base for the rudder. then, when you want to introduce pivot points or whatever, you simply print a new rudder base instead of the whole chasis
I love the detailed explanations of your design features and decisions. You really do an excellent job. I wish I could like it more than once!!
This is your best video yet. Some really nice design features. I especially like how the fan and servo mount on a single bolt.
Paint it BLACK, paint tentacles on it and christen it H.P. HOVERCRAFT
Really reaching for that one. Honestly you couldn't fit hentai into the reference as well?
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Hey man fuck that guy!!! I love the lovecraft reference!! Jeeze didnt his mamma teach him anything?? If ya aint got nothing nice to say.......shut the fuck up ya little puke!! Hehe
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Damn, i like it
Nice, 69 likes.
Great job Tom, every time I watch one of your videos It makes me want to improve upon my own rc projects just that much more! Very nice build.
Just made mine. Love it. I found a 70mm EDF on Thingyverse which i scaled to 7mm on the Z and 75mm on X and Y. Works great! Cheers Tom. Great design!
Dat cable management... I wish I could be bothered to design those into my designs :P.
Short skirts don’t just look good on the ladies Tom they give much more stability to hovercrafts 😜
That's some impressive engineering on the chassis, good job man! Especially with how simple assembly is!
This is an absolute brilliant design! Thanks for sharing!
Someone's been watching Ivan Miranda haha. You two should collaborate sometime in the future.
The tilt to port (12:30) is compounded by engine torque. Also, at 15:45 you need to consider rudder stall.
Very impressive Sir. I was wowed at how you thought of mounting the servo and turbine together.
Neat build! It looks like it goes pretty well. Thanks for sharing!
18:07 Great toy!
the motor/propeller housing looks like the pnp/npn type transistor symbol from a circuit diagram :-P
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NE 555 maybe not one to one but somewhat looks like it
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This is legit, I'm super impressed with how well it worked on the first go around. Also was really glad to see it all in a single video, I like the multi part videos as well, but sometimes they feel cut a little too short :) Excellent work on this!
This is a realy great build. Im as impressed by the simplicity as much as its strangeness. The whole thing runs on a single motor and a servo. Toy companies would kill for such a cheep build.
Nice, great job, I like it 😊😀😊
Something tells me that sometime in the future, you will be flying around England in an ultralight of your own design/construction...
Another well thought out design. I always enjoy your work. Thanks for sharing.
Clever design! Nice iterations & great result!
That’s well cool
You could add a heading hold heli gyro!
Absolutely brilliant and very nicely constructed!
I really like your red and blue color scheme for 3d printing, keep up the cool stuff man
I reckon the HQ 6 bladed prop would be nice if cut down to fit.
Mix your rudder and throttle to compensate for prop torque. You also could have mounted the entire fan on a servo for steering.Nice build!
Robert Lunsford yeh i like the idea of mounting the fan as a rudder as well great idea
Turning the whole fan would make it pretty complicated to design the air intake for the skirt... On a Hovercraft with a seperate propeller for the skirts it would work fine I guess...
or just turn the duct itself
Jusb1066 But then you lose the thrust advantage of a ducted fan.
The major problem with turning the hole fan would be the rotational forces generated from rotating a spinning object. Anyone play with a top before?
this is soo satisfying when putting the peaces together... SATISFACTION!!
That's awesome, dude! Really, really nice work and design! 😀
Cool!
Hey, was just thinking why not tripple aerofoils on the rear, you could keep the servo in it's current position, and link the outer foils...just a thought! Great video, enjoy your channel!
Richard McDonnell Double rudders would be pretty easy, just need to drill two holes for pivots, and use the servo horns to connect linkages
yet another great project, well documented, explained and really good to watch! Looking at the printing section I can suggest a couple changes to improve your print and reduce stringing, I also have a few CR10s: give it a coast distance of about 0.10 - 0.20 - depending on temp. increase retraction speed.
I do so enjoy your videos and the explanations you give for the various decisions you make. Keep up the great work.
nice project i like it !! what do you think about en electric longboard !! after the electriv Bike V3 i think a an electric longboard could be your next project !!
Myster Orel nah there are too many people that have done that already
DerpyDoom yeah I know that and i have also watch many of them ! But Tom made his project in a diffrent way and maybe he will show us something very differente !!
Myster Orel Yeah that would be great. Maybe we could have a good, easy to follow tutorial(Not saying no one else doesn't have one but toms would be the best)
Tanner Constantine yeah for sure
Is there any place you sell or give out the files for the 3D prints? I love it!
I don't have it so I'm not sure, but I think on his patreon!
Wow, that's some nice engineering done there. Love it
Tom Stanton Nice design and troubleshooting.
*"As far as I am aware (correct me if I am wrong), the hollow ducts of this hovercraft frame couldn't be manufactured in ONE piece using any other manufacturing technique."* Technically you could have cast the whole thing.
I thought peter sripol did something like this.
Its super cool that Peter Sripol is a Patreon supporter of yours, showing support for the DIY community, awesome.
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Yeeesss! I'm so going to print that!! Great design too Tom!!!
What happens if you scale it up?
It would be bigger :P
pizza_boy18 Need a bigger motor
Hmm that could be interesting... I think I have a motor that will run a 6 inch propeller (3inch propeller on this) to build a 2:1 scale replica ;)
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A really cool idea is to scale it up for outdoor use but keep most of the design. Perhaps as long as a skateboard. Some parts would still be able to be 3D printed. Love your videos!
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Tom, one of my favorite projects so far.
Exceptionally well done mate. A very creditable job of design, construction and the problem solving was done exquisitely. Very, very impressed, thank you for sharing, 11x👍🏻👏
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Tom, each time i see you've uploaded a new video - i drop everything and watch it. you are a brilliant guy and I thank you for sharing. i am not only learning a lot from you, but i do this with a smile as well. keep up the good work. waiting for your next video s to come.
Nice one Tom, always enjoyable to watch
The quality of your content is far above a lot of 3d printing/rc/experimental channels I see. Keep it up!
I wish I was born with the brains like you. you are making good functional stuff so easilly and rapidly.
First video I see from U . Very smart and realistic the way you analyze the problems. I did a hovercrafts and most of the issues I had you mention then and fixed them properly. Very clever. I mean I've seen aerospace engineers attacking the problems like amateurs. Pretty good video
Cool project. I liked how you designed the cable paths
Very nice. I've ordered a 3d printer so binge watching a lot of videos to get ideas and I love this. At first I'm going to build wired control things like cranes and maybe a digger but I'll get onto RC items at some point
Awesome! I love the rudder Innovation that worked out well
well done Tom! instead of duplicating the rudder you could triple it: keep the servo in place. create two vertical axles for therudders, equidistant from the servo (on the right and left of the servo) and connect the two rudders to the central rudder bracket and you're done. If you do not want to have three rudders you can remove the central one keeping, off course the servo's bracket
Nice job Tom, congrats !
You just solved my skirt problem. It's been doing my head in on my homemade foam hovercraft. I love your design. Mine has a foam box at the bottom of the propeller (not ducted) and ported evenly and 2 cells are more than enough. My mates 4 cell li po broke the moter mount but it works not quite as well as your design and now I'm rambling lol
Nice first attempt. Can't wait to see version #2. Hopefully it will have the dual rudder design.
Wow that rudder solution was super elegant!
Yay for design without supports! I find the challenge of designing for 3d printing absolutely amazing.
Looks like great fun to operate.
Thanks Tom. Enjoy the channel :) Have purchased the files to have a play with.
Awesome design! Can't wait to see what's next.
Nice work mate, i like the second rudder. It improves syerring abiliry. I have one with 3 lever rudder set up and its harder to control than your 2nd rudder. Keep up the research, its very interesting. Thanks.
You single handedly motivated me to buy a 3d printer. Keen to get started
can't wait for v2!!! ... I think i'm going to make one of these when you work out the kinks :) thank you
Had me and my boy enthralled. Thank you.
Great idea... Fun to watch. Might make one myself!
Oh man, this video spoke to me in a way that I can't describe from my childhood.
The reason for the hovercraft tilting over to its left is that the motor is rotating to the right and the angular momentum it has tries to flip the hovercraft. The problem is less obvious when it's hovering lower as it then has less space for the left edge to come down.
You can use triple rudder, with linkages to main rudder. Or you can do dual rudder if you leave the servo where it is and link to two rudders, as if there was a middle rudder on it.
Awesome build!
I enjoyed your super-electrolytic capacitor driven rocket video so much that I'm gonna check this one out too!
Super cool and clean build
Awesome work, nicely designed!
14:35 - I was a bit concerned for your fingers there 😂 Love your videos! Cheers!