3D printed cloverleaf antenna maker

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have no idea if this is a clever bypass around expensive commercial offerings, a clever waste of time that barely improves over doing it by hand, or somewhere in between, but it sure looks like a nice design and print.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s an automation step for a small scale factory

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, definite neato factor but by eyeball at least I feel like I could do that bend by hand within a mm tolerance of this. Hard to imagine this precision is needed. Makes sense if mass producing these I guess.

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    • Wilshire@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a workshop for combat FPV drones, so precision is extremely important.

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    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I make a lot of stuff and I don’t think I could bend it that precisely by hand. Also I would take much much longer.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the black thing they show at the end is the usual tool to do it, this just looks like 20 extra needless steps.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s for bulk building drones you have into the faces of occupiers, good enough is necessary perfect is not.

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What am I looking at here? What are these antennae used for?

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re popular with drone pilots, here’s some old school website about them

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    • yokonzo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not a radio guy, but for a drone antennae, wouldn’t you want vertical range rather than broadside range?

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• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These look like the little flying sensor balls from Twister.

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• ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do these come flat packed is that what the tool is for or do you form the whole thing first then use the tool to bend?

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looks like stamped or laser cut pieces that then need bending in the 3rd dimension.

    Then soldering a coaxial connector or wire to each half to finish them.

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