Ive now used my second refresh, I thought my Avata 2 would be safe with all i added to it but the GPS was next to get hit and die… anyone found any thing really good in the way of protection for these Avata 2’s yet?
Thinking a full body light weight silicone rubber housing would be a good idea maybe?
I still cant post gifs but ill describe in great lengths what you need Lloyd. Hear goes…erm maybe a miracle! Just kidding 
Plus not to fly in complete darkness around your house!
Rather than take this thread off topic, I’ll DM you Jack 
All good Jack, no worries mate, I’m thinking I may reach out to someone who 3d prints cause I have some ideas in mind.
Some very, very, helpful club members can be found over here Lloyd 
Thanks mate
As im bored and enjoy trying things out for myself, i decided to work with Copilot to make my own GPS protector, so far ive
Installed Blender
Found and imported a 3d scan of the Avata 2 into Blender
Installed SimFlow 5.0 to check aerodynamics once designed
Looked into the costs to purchase a metal 3d printer - Markforged Metal X to print my design in aluminium.
Anyone here know Blender at all?
£100k to protect a £400 drone seems entirely reasonable.
Copilot suggested its £850? - it lied to me, ok, will have to be carbon then
They do make it hard to find the price, but having done a lot of work with HP’s 3D printer division, I know metal printers are usually big money - and the fact that all their dealers say ‘Contact sales for a quote’ usually means you can’t put it on a credit card!
The best I could find was this, but when you go to the page, it says ‘Request a price’.
And this - which seems pretty consistent with the Google search result. The HP Metal Jet they talk about here is a really cool bit of kit, but you’ll need a small industrial unit, hazmat PPE and, from memory, three phase power as well as the £350k to buy the printer!
https://www.reddit.com/r/fosscad/comments/wipgxk/the_real_cost_of_metal_3d_printers/?rdt=48529
Yeah I’ll stick to plastic lol
