Legs for F450 clone by mebj

Last crawled date: 3 years, 2 months ago

I bought a Chinese F450 clone to learn about the art of building and flying a drone and soon found out that one of my major talents was to break the legs due to tough landings :-)
I looked at Thingiverse to find ready made models and found among other things this site https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1206960 and used the long leg models from this "thing" for a while (many, many thanks for publishing!).
When I added a gimbal and a camera the weight of course increased but also the free distance between the camera and the ground became very small. To remedy this I designed a pair of longer legs (about 20 mm higher) which also are quite a bit stronger due to increased width and closed arm panels. This is thus a new design but with ideas from the various other versions around.
To simplify printing, the attachment plate is asymetrically placed which also means that there are two versions. A full set thus consists of two type A and two type B legs.
Maybe there are other "experts" on drone landing around and if so please enjoy!
Revision 2019-12-09
I added a second version where the "keyhole" cutout at the top has been removed to increase strength. Flexibility is of course reduced at the same time so which version is to prefer depends on weight etc.