Puffin - work in progress

[Occupant]

Had the idea of crossing a jet fighter with a Submarine and started workin on this. The shape and desired abilities made me think of a Puffin hence the name.

[redboat219]

I presume the front dive planes are independently controlled for pitch/roll. How about for yaw?

[Occupant]

Yaw is a rudder ball in the tail shroud

[neitosub]

Love it, looks awesome

[Occupant]

Still a work in progress, played with a few iterations of ballast system. I keep trying to make things harder than they need to be (Y?). Initially wanted everything in the wet except the receiver and ESC's. Have come full circle to where only the drive motor and servo's are in the wet so a lot of the internals are changing. In the mean time getting used to resin printing - first up the canopy. Check out the before and after polishing and sealing for clarity. next up resin printing the WTC - its an odd shape to do and needs to accommodate threaded inserts. as i build this keep seeing things to fix to make it easier to print, assemble, etc...

[Occupant]

More progress, added hardware and magnetic washers (act as latch) for the canopy access hatch to the fin servos.



Also soldered up extensions and potted in wiring thru WTC for drive motor and rudder servo.