5 June 2013
Building a remote control truggy using a 3D printer, this is the big challenge the Swedish Daniel Norée recently took on and succeeded. For information, a truggy is a cross between a monster truck and a buggy and is specifically designed for off-road racing.
As an experienced user of TopSolid 7, Daniel Norée used the new generation of CAD/CAM solution to design from scratch all of the parts that make up the truggy. Once designed, parts have been subsequently printed out on a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer (of course, it is possible to use a similar 3D printer) to go from virtual reality to physical reality, and finally assembled one by one.
The RC truggy design is open source so that anyone who wants to try the experience can download the project files, 3D print and assemble at home. All of the CAD files are available here. To make it easy for anyone to make modifications if necessary, the design of the vehicle has been kept as basic as possible. To find out more about the OpenRC truggy and see the project history, visit the Google+ page here. For more in-depth technical discussions, join the OpenRC Google Group.
Check out the video of this experimental 3D-printable RC car in action:
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