PLIGHTRI - a Tricopter with mounting for Naze FC board

Built this for my home-built tricopter, inspired by David Windestahl's design (RC-Explorer)

New update coming

• Aimed towards a modular design I'm working on setting up my printer first, as soon as I've a confirmed good print and flight test I'll post the update. Let me know by request what kind of flight controller board you want to be able to mount - this will allow for a one-fits all design!
• fits 10mm booms
• screw holes let you screw in M3 bolts directly in the plastic
• DT750 motor mounts for 10mm booms - including rear hinged setup
• Naze 32 and Acro Naze 32 mounting case bottom from Gruffy
• enclosed battery holder - protects your soft lipo in case of a crash
• camera mount for Sony Action Cam platform on the front
• non-folding legs
• printed with supports

printed at 10% density .2mm resolution and it's solid. The "fishtail" towards the back is intended as surface on which to mount LEDs.

next version will probably include cable-management clips and possibly a new removable leg system

This battery holder is supposed to just "clip in" to the chassis.

After having just concluded a test flight with the battery holder in place, I can confirm that it performs as promised. It perfectly fits my 3S 2200mAh. I can, upon request scale/resize the container part to accomodate larger batteries. However for my purposes the 2200mAh is more than sufficient for 10-15 minute flights, even with the Sony Action cam mounted on board.

Instructions

Designed the piece with Blender. Built it mostly with boolean logic - built the hole pattern of the Acro NaZe (a square pattern with 3mm holes), added the Sony ActionCam base plate from ViniG (see sources), and built from there.

Decided I wanted plenty of options to hold a battery and cables into place, and figured on using a velcro strap for it, maybe two.

Printed it on a Replicator 2 at 10% infill and .2mm slice thickness and supports. You'll need the supports, if not for the camera mount, then at least for the boom "bays".

The thing is rock solid, but I think the boom "placeholders" were shrunk down a bit, needed to trim my booms a bit to fit. Drilled holes through the booms to insert M3x20mm screws to hold them in place. It's not going anywhere. The plastic holes are just the right size that you can screw directly into the plastic without damaging the print or feel them getting loose.

I hope others find this useful. Also if you want a different camera mount on it, please let me know - it's more then easy enough to swap it out and make a copied design.

The motor mounts are meant for DT750s, I basically built them a little "light" so they're a tad springy when having a rough landing. Better to have to replace a landing gear segment than a motor mount.

The hinged mount is supposed to be hinged on 2x M3x20mm bolts. The holes in the "rear motor assembly" part are slightly larger than the "rear motor support's", so that you can screw the bolts into the fixed part while the articulation remains the same on the mounts.