Making a UFO // Mynt3D Professional 3D Pen + DJI Mavic Pro

Will a 3D printing pen be accurate enough to build a working UFO out of my drone? I'll show you the whole build with plenty of cool tools and tricks along the way!
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• Fillamentum CPE filament : bit.ly/FL-cpe
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[@andershenriksen7592]

Devin is really handling the quarantine well

[@mannymoctopusREAL]

lmao I just started the video and read your comment and was trying to figure out if it was sarcastic or not and then... the intro started 😂

[@andershenriksen7592]

Onion Boi 😂

[@mawamatakama5150]

Nah, He is totally losing it.

[@andershenriksen7592]

mawama takama i can’t tell if you’re being serious

[@rainityyy]

@@mawamatakama5150 he joking

[@eancarrara4567]

Roswell UFO incident, 1947, colorized.

[@littlesmacking6877]

God damn i was going to use the joke

[@eyebflyfishin]

Lol

[@Rouverius]

What you're calling "failure", I'm calling "glorious." 😁 Seriously, thanks for posting this.

[@333donutboy]

It's not a failure. It's learning how not to do things.

[@CinqueTsunami]

Can you plese add a text that translates the lenghts/weights in KG instead of BaldEagles per McDonalds?

[@DavidSchmitt]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@LucasHartmann]

LOL

[@joel.4351]

Love the willy wonka reference

[@GoodRoads]

Crazy Devon is favorite Devon.

[@PrintThatThing]

I KNEW you were an alien! ;) Great video, Devin.

[@make.anything]

Considering I couldn't fly a UFO I think this video makes the opposite case! 👽

[@FusionSource]

Nice video, why not aliens? Nice Pen, and I love that CPE filament. Really cool concept, thanks for sharing.

[@nickrowan]

11:15 0.562 lbs = 0,255 kg for people who don't use imperial. 12:30 RIP 14:50 Maybe make the legs heavier so it's not so top heavy?

[@toastwolf158]

That intro is a 11/10

[@dnldainvinbleco]

Wow! You posted twice in about a week i hope you see this cuz i love your videos!!😊😊

[@generation3d296]

Devin - you are a workhorse. And did I mention, that you are my favorite maker!!

[@stumpagness11]

It's been forever! So glad to see a new vid from you!

[@Fregley_]

It's been 6 days

[@RobertShippey]

Ginger Ninja Cubing six days too long 😭

[@benniebond1754]

LMAO! The Intro took me out 😂

[@blakemash7122]

That’s really nice how you just Laughed after it crashed. Great job man!!

[@XxHeManWomenHaterxX]

Make the Millennium Falcon! It has a much lower center of mass, please!!

[@marshmallow_fellow]

"It can carry at most 2 pound. I know that doesn't sound like much" I mean, it's about $4 AUD. that can buy you some chocolate... or 2 bottles of milk

[@PlaneAwesome]

You mentioned that the UFO was getting top-heavy, but the instability was likely from a larger moment of inertia. Having the rings so far from the center of gravity causes it to over-compensate, which is why people don't get these problems when mounting accessories close to the center of the drone. The Mavic is designed with its PID values tuned to its moment and mass, but with something like a race quad you can adjust those values and stabilize the flight. All the same, great showcase of the Mynt3D Pro!

[@draughtoflethe]

I'm glad to hear that the pen earned your stamp of approval, since I got the exact same model for my birthday a couple of days ago, on the strength of your review of the Super. It's my first 3D pen and I'm loving it so far!

[@Redemtor62]

Welcome to the world of RC crashes :D

[@Magic3DPrinting]

Great video! I love drones and UFOs! Can’t wait for build #2!

[@dagr8kerek]

You’re literally the best!

[@armandoa2484]

All I can say is that was a great attempt! Good job.

[@ThePracy]

Hahahahahahaha im lovin this

[@BricktowneMedia]

LOL That intro tho.....on point.

[@ElburroE]

This is awesome. Dude, SO much work but its great.

[@martinpanev6651]

26th comment! I love your channel! You inspired me to buy a 3d printer a few years ago... Now I have 5... You sucked me into this alternate 3d printer universe! I LOVE this!

[@nunyabusiness9043NunyaBiz]

Another fun to watch video.

[@joelvarney5091]

My guess would be that the clipping propeller caused the actual crash. The propeller clipping was slowing it down which was also making it drift backwards.

[@make.anything]

I'm sure that had something to do with it.. although the drift could also be from weight imbalance

[@hootsmin]

@@make.anything This guy is right I think, I could see it coming. The propeller clipping the structure meant that the propeller wasn't producing thrust correctly and this threw off the control software which attempted to compensate and crashed the craft. Might even have plain stuck the propeller watching it back again.

[@elmariachi5133]

It actually moved like an UFO in those early 20th centur black and white movies!

[@make.anything]

Haha that's true!

[@alonraz6477]

Thank you so much Davin! I just bought a mynt and I'm so excited, I can't wait to make some things with it

[@Kevin-tc3ob]

Cool! I gotta get me a 3d pen & try something like this with my Mavic Pro :-) Very nice concept Devin

[@thedreamermvp8142]

year 3012: engineers: We need more reload for 3D pens!

[@radekrydzewski8474]

That intro legitimately shook me to my core.

[@Querenciatv]

Incredible Work 👍

[@makewithmegma]

Amazing work👍

[@SoloBrainCell]

This guy never give up! never afraid to share his failure , keep it up !

[@augustinamatsui2170]

That is super surprising that Myt3d worked for you. I bought a classroom set and even with 2nd generation pens still got some problems. Glad they worked for you Devin. Keep making cool stuff!

[@iheartotown]

Devin, you're the coolest.

[@sebastianocornia980]

With drones you also have to consider that if you put something that drags with the air moved by the propeller it is going to increase the load put on those motors to fly. In this case the weight added wasn't a lot but there probably was a lot of drag with air and the drone couldn't handle it.

[@NKCubed]

that was a beautiful intro

[@djxunlimitedfpv644]

As a drone nut I found this funny and awesome! Great vid

[@CatholicZola]

Me coming to this video expecting a traditional review of a 3D pen: 👁️✨👁️ Me leaving after this wild ride: 👾👾👾

[@V843v3r]

Should've used glow in the dark filament and fly it at night

[@zacharywerner8641]

This guy deserves way more subs because his ideas are always so great

[@emmanuelantwibediako1831]

I really love your website 😍😍😍

[@selenmolla9926]

10:04 Cute...

[@brendanowen7563]

Great project. Must be frustrating spending so much manual time making something then having it destroyed in seconds. I think using the 3D printer combined with the 3D pen you could build some structures efficiently. Maybe designing some of those 3D printed sub structures then combining with the 3D pen might work out well.

[@make.anything]

That's pretty much what I'm thinking!

[@alinegabriellatrottaprovas9544]

Devin, you ALWAYS put a smile on my face when I watch your videos, amazing work, and ideas! keep going! Love your channel

[@vidmaker90210]

Wonderful Wonka!

[@colinfielder6695]

Love it. Thanks Devin

[@JLake3D]

Printing the rings would definitely make it sturdier.

[@silasexperiment]

the super 3d pen is my only 3d pen the only reason i have it is ur vid thanks :))

[@JohnDBloch]

I'm very glad that the UFO is the only thing that got hit, propellers + skin = stitches.

[@RetroToonsOfficial]

Your Content Are Awesome i Mean I like It

[@akraus53]

Thanks for the conversion into the other imperial unit ;)

[@indigo2266]

Awesome!

[@aaronjones155]

In this episode of make anything Devin trys mushrooms he found in the woods

[@jaybee16g]

Have you thought about making a vacuum table and a ufo mold. A plastic shell would be lightweight and you could cut vent holes for airflow.

[@3DJapan]

I have a Mavic Mini that is made to be flown indoors, but it's still kinda scary.

[@wktodd]

Unless you can tune the drone's firmware , I suspect you'll suffer instability if you change the drone's angular momentum i.e. any weight that is spread out from the centre . So, try to minimize the height and width of your saucer.

[@brianmi40]

You should send that intro in as your audition to be on Stranger Things!

[@TedChow221]

Og Wonka ftw

[@FoxxyDuchess8636]

That was amazing!! Love your ideas! I was also wondering if you could do a orange VW Beatle?

[@jaysonesguerra]

Maybe use your wood cnc to cut the shapes you need quickly, then trance over those shapes with the 3d pen? You'll get a lot more precise shapes and hopefully balance. Fantastic video by the way, the amount of work you put into these projects is insane!

[@make.anything]

Thanks! I was debating bringing the CNC into this, some precision is certainly called for :P

[@LucasHartmann]

Print surfaces (1 layer thick, no top/bottom, ~10% star or triangle infill, 200% extrusion width), bend, glue, repeat.

[@Nullzero98]

How about 3D printing a jig of some kind to speed up the welding process? Especially for those trusses. Hard to describe what I'm thinking... but imagine starting with a flat triangle. The triangle would have 3 holes, one near each corner. Now extrude that triangle out into 3D... say 2 or 3cm. Now insert into the 3 holes, your 3 filaments for the truss structure. The jig holds them in place, and speeds up the welding process.

[@jacksoni349]

That intro though haha

[@davidjordan276]

I would like to see a fully/ mostly printed version. I feel like the modeling would take forever but it would be so worth in the end for the balance issues

[@Sonderax]

petition to bring back pegboards!

[@1st1anarkissed]

Oh I felt that too. But for a moment there it was epic. And you got the footage. I think mylar around an open cone "dome" might give you the effect you want. Just mylar sheeting on the outside, but not under or above, so the blades keep going. Then there's the issue of wobble. your rig was too flexible and bent too much, bending into the blades and destabilizing the flight. A central post up through the dome from the body of the drone?

[@Ammesiano]

Hey, nice work, a creative mind inspiring others at the time experiments it self. Have a great day, new suscriber.

[@beefoprime8254]

Hey Devin! I have 2 questions for you. 1. What do you think your easiest puzzle is? 2. What colors of matte filiment did you use for the Neapolitan color scheme on one of your puzzles?

[@AMPhotoArt]

Great job! I would build from the drone up don’t add any extra legs and make it smaller with a little alien inside the dome. Like an outer circle ring above the blades then a dome. Hope that makes sense lol. Have fun making!

[@magneticanimalism7419]

11:31 That was the sound of inevitability :P

[@NobleCubes]

Looks amazing

[@kaitlinmcinnis4744]

I would personally have made the dome on top a bit shorter, or more of a half oval (I forget the name of it since it isn't an egg but more of a skinny sphere in a sense) since the dome on top probably made the filament bend down towards the blades and was the downfall. Maybe trusses in the main body (avoiding the blades obviously) might help prevent the filament from getting shredded. I hope this helps and best wishes!

[@zerofox3d]

My gut feeling is it was the structure interfering with the Mavics obstacle avoidance sensors, that’s why it gradually got more and more unstable. If it’s possible to go to a more manual flight mode perhaps with a bit more room (10ft instead of 8ft lol) you’ll be fine!

[@AbdulMax021]

Omg, the intro - that was out of character. lol

[@coaltowking]

I would think that dome's biggest problem is changing the airflow to the props, not just that it makes it top heavy.

[@make.anything]

Yea, I'm battling a lot of forces here!

[@matonmongo]

Actually a great demonstration w/ some handy tricks and also gives a pretty good idea in general of what's possible with these glorified sorta 'hot glue guns'. And love your 'focus'... lotsa folks have great ideas, but often lack the necessary 'tenacity'. BTW, maybe start with a larger dome wide enuff to enclose the blades, and then add a slightly larger 'disk shape' w/ landing gear _below_ it. Cheers!

[@portlandjanus3998]

Aight yeah fine I’ll buy the pen

[@PumpkinPails]

What if you use thin tissue paper or rice paper to add color and opaqueness to the dome and ship body instead of filament? It could keep the weight down. As I type this, I'm guessing it would block the airflow to the drone, but I don't know enough about this stuff to know for sure.

[@kirboysgaming6937]

Nice 👍

[@SuperBilly008]

U could 3D print a single shell vase mode dome for the next version of ufo

[@SuperBilly008]

Also add some lead weight to the legs on the main ufo frame to add some balance stability

[@introvertairways]

Put a bunch of LEDs on it and fly it at low altitudes to mess with people.

[@make.anything]

;)

[@3DPlasticFantasy]

t would be cool if you could add a little alien guy inside. It was a fun project tho.

[@Noah-we4oc]

"why not aliens" thats my new answer to anything someone asks me

[@geetikawadhwa8418]

are resin prints stronger? you can do some resin printing for version 2.0

[@TRPisang]

This explained what i see last night, 2020 is not that bad.

[@Justwayne88]

Wow 👏 this is amazing i imagine it took a long time. I had a drone and it flew off lol never found it again. Great work with 3d pen.

[@make.anything]

Oh man, mine almost did that too. I literally had to grab it out of the sky and hold on for dear life. I learned how to override it after that scary lesson! :'D

[@Justwayne88]

@@make.anything ahh really must be common thing mine was on a roof and I managed to get it going and off the roof and it just went up up and further away like I don't even know how high or far lol. I was gutted haha 😄

[@make.anything]

@@Justwayne88 Who knows, maybe it's on the moon by now! Sorry for your loss though

[@jessenoway]

dat intro tho!

[@Anna-ku9xk]

Love the covid cut

[@ofiasdfnosdf]

Maybe add some counterweight to the bottom?

[@exqueue3813]

Just over half a pound in material leaves 1.5 lbs for LEDs.

[@jasinss1]

Super project :) I'm looking for a 3D printing pen for my sons but I don't know what to choose yet. I'm thinking about "3Doodler Create Plus" but I found out that the problem/minus is expensive filament cartridges. I see you are currently using "MYNT3D Professional". Can you point out which device is better - "MYNT3D Professional", "3Doodler Create Plus" or some other? I will be grateful for a hint.

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

Well it’s a month late but my MYNT 3D pro has worked very nicely

[@coolshooo]

crazy creative, is the best description for this chanel

[@dim1723]

I think a mustang p51 drone frame would look cool. Airbags has a drone plane and but it's a small one.

[@BlackringIII]

Did you get a sliding mitre saw yet?