Medusa build inspiration: Project linkall HK UAV

The Linkall team founded by Jiaqi Hu and Zebo has built an impressive drone that is a inspiration to our team. The Medusa UAV will be similar to the Linkall drone in size and shape, but will differ in design and construction.

Our hats are off to the Project Linkall team. See more about their project on the DYI Drone site and the links below.

Linkall HK flight video
http://youtu.be/IuWmLhJBPzk

DYI Drones Linkall Build
http://diydrones.com/m/blogpost?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A1142725

Linkall Website:

http://linkall.cc

Linkall Info.

The Project linkall has been founded by Jiaqi Hu and Zebo Sun since Oct 2011. Linkall is considered to be the pioneer in the drones delivery system, which has been developed and researched by our team with all the curiosity and enthusiasm for such a new field.

The technological solution of fully automated end to end drones delivery system by linkall is not just a drone for transportation and delivery, but an totally autocratic and continuous working system. In the very near future, the convenient service provided by linkall will become an indispensable part of your life. Especially, we do not only provide service to urban residents, instead, we hope to serve all the people who need it with no charge, especially those in remote area.

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Medusa Visual Inspiration

All great projects come from great inspiration.When we sat down to discuss what type of UAV we wanted to create the Terminators HK Hunter killer and the Matrix Sentinel immediately came to mind. 

I looked over hundreds of images trying to find the one that fit the communicate the final look and feel for the Medusa Project. These dark menacing designs with machine minds hovering in the smoke and darkness provoke the perfect combination of awe and fear for a theatrically remember-able flight.

This Sentinel by Felix Joleanes is not only a great image but also a great model. Check out the following links to see more of his work on the project.

The Trickster Project Blog

http://joleanes.com/

This Sentinel by Felix Joleanes is not only a great image but also a great model. Check out the following links to see more of his work on the project.

This amazing image of the HK was created by concept artist Peter Rubin at Iron Rooster Studios.http://www.ironroosterstudios.com/

Below are my initial concept sketches of the Medusa project were done on my Phone with Autodesk SketchPro Mobile app. They are my first impressions of mixing the multiple segmented arms and multiply eyes of the sentinel and the v tailed quad adaption of the HK Body. 

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Medusa Project 26lbs Multirotor Power System

The Medusa's heavy lift UAV power system is being designed with the maximum thrust and lift capacity for a quad copter built with standard multirotor system components.  Follow the tech talk discussion on the RC Forum.

Components for 1500+mm (Y4) vtailed heavy lift multirotors

Latest Power System Configuration

4: Avroto 3520 LIFT Series KV:400 brushless motors
4: 18/ 6.1 Carbon Fiber Props
4:  Amp ESC's (Simon K flashed)
2: Nano tech 6S 8000mah 65/100c Lipo batteries

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Npower Software Sponsors Medusa Project.

Dave Gill and the Npower Software team have decided to sponsor the Medusa Project by graciously providing our team with a license of Power NURBS. The Npower software suite for Autodesks 3ds Max will provide our creative team with the advance surface and solid modeling tools necessary to prototype the vehicle. 

 
As a long time user of Power NURBS user I can't express how thankful we are for the Npower teams much welcomed support on our project. The software is a dream to work with providing 3ds Max users an intuitive UI and comprehensive CAD accurate surfaces. The software's unique properties will provide the corner stone of project. It will allow us to export our 3d solid model directly to Autodesk Inventor where we can engineer in the details and prototype the UAV.

Check out the software: http://www.npowersoftware.com/NewPowerNURBS.html

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Detroit TechShop Sponsors Medusa Project

Initial Medusa project sponsorship meeting with Will Brick at the Detroit TechShop.

Will was great. He explained that the TechShop was all about the DYI community and is fully committed to helping us achieve our goal of building our UAV. He took the time to give me a full tour of the facility and let me tell you the space and the tools are amazing.

Will asked me to make an initial presentation of the Medusa Project to community February the 8th. I am so looking forward to the experience.

http://www.techshop.ws/ts_detroit.html

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Creativity-CAD-Community>>>> It all starts here.

Our goal for the Medusa Project is to bring together creativity, CAD and community to develop an construct a custom UAV

The Core Mackevsion Team of the project is myself Eric Pinkel and Vaughan Gernhardt with various concept input from Joe Palma. However, since the project was conceived as a community endeavor, I am sure the list will grow and grow.

The Medusa Project is designed by nature to use a complete Autodesk Software workflow from concept to creation.  The open nature of the project means that all of the construction data of the project will be published so that anyone can replicate the Medusa Drone.

Here we go.

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