Wouldn’t the production bottlenecks be non-3D printable components like the PCBs for the Flight Controller and the Electronic Speed Control Stack? Those aren’t things you can just whip together in a garage.
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I could imagine these can be ordered from abroad. There are many pcb manufacturers but not many for specific drone parts.
I would imagine that for some models scaling using an injection mold would be worthwhile. So you can keep prototyping and adjusting and in parallel scale up and make the small fpv’s even cheaper.
Injection molding is capital intensive and generally geographically concentrated (i.e. factories). It makes for easy and expensive targets.
3d printing can be distributed, and capable printers are amazingly cheap.
There’s way more to it, just pointing out one “pro” for 3dp
Absolutely, no doubt about it.
Although some industry in Ukraine might nog have better things to do and the speed at which stuff can be made increases “a bit”… I’m not thinking everything… just some parts.
The agility of 3d printing is magnificent. It allows small adjustments to be made and distributed for rapid iteration of improvement. Even local experimentation of modifications and custom part printing.
On top of this 3d printers can print anything, not just drone parts… so it might help on other fronts too.
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Anybody got a .stl and a bill of materials?
“200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way”
Right bottom printer is slacking.
“Get back to work! These orcs aren’t going to blow themselves up! Well, not all of them. Or…well…not at first, but they might after getting injured. Never mind. Just please get back to work.”
