Monto RC Hobby Powers UP The Medusa Project

Thank you to the team at Monto RC Hobby for contributing 4 Avroto 3520 400Kv motors to our Autodesk University Multi-rotor UAV Project.   While researching large scale and heavy lift Multi-Rotor UAV's in the RC Groups I read Stephen Clinch's review of the Arvoto Lift Series motors. I was impressed by designer Andrew Raines 21lb Hexacopter and wrote Jim at Monto to discuss testing out his engine design on our project.  The...

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Medusa Project Official Unveiling at Detroit TechShop

The Medusa Project had its official unveiling today at the Detroit TechShop Coffee and Concepts meet-up. The 15 minute Medusa presentation gave the interested audience of savvy DIY creators and entrepreneurs an overview of what we hoped to achieve with the UAV in the coming months. The follow up discussion included an enthusiastic round of questions ranging from how to get involved in the project to presentation safety and large scale UAV performance...

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Eric Nantel of Lynxmotion and RobotShop Joins Medusa Air-Frame Design Team

I am excited to announce that Eric Nantel from Lynxmotion and RobotShop and designer of DiaLFonZo-Copters has generously offered his insight and time to the Medusa Project air-frame design team. Eric's sleek v-tail design is the inspiration behind our projects internal frame design. You can follow his incredible build story of the Hunter V-Tail 400/500 mm quad copter design on the RC Forums. His work has attracted interest around the globe...

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Medusa Project Selects Autodesk 360 Fusion for Air-frame design.

As many of you know from earlier posts the Medusa Project will use a Autodesk software workflow.  Today we are officially announcing the use of Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD modeler for the UAV air-frame design and manufacturing. Since our project is based on our Creative/CAD/Community philosophy Fusion 360 is a perfect fit. Fusion is centered around community development allowing the design and build team design access to the CAD airframe...

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Medusa Project selects 3DS Max as Creative 3D platform

Our core Medusa team members are VFX and visualization artists. Our everyday job revolves around modeling and rendering photo real images and animations for the Detroit automotive industry. Our 3D tools are 3DS Max and Maya, so it seems the natural fit to use these Autodesk software tools for the creative stage of the project. To begin we will be starting the modeling the exterior V1 prototype of the UAV in 3ds Max using Power NURBS plugin....

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Medusa Project uses Autodesk SketchBook Mobile for early UAV concept work.

In the spirit of keeping the Medusa drone an end to end Autodesk software project I decided to begin with the SketchBook Pro App on my Samsung Note 3 Phone. I excited to learn that Autodesk had released an Android based mobile version. I have used SketchBook on my Ipad in the past, but I wanted something that was immediately accessible and always available. The idea worked perfectly akin to sketching ideas on a napkin.  ...

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Mackevision Sponsors Medusa Project

I am happy to announce that Mackevision is now an official sponsor of the Medusa Project.  The core of the Medusa team consist of Mackevison artist based in the Detroit office. Mackevision supports yearly creative contests and opportunities for the artists to show off their skills.  Heiko Wenzel president of Mackevision Detroit an artist and designer himself has always believed in pushing the creative and technical...

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