Week 2: Computer Aided design

Research

About 10 years ago, I was flying my drone in winter, when it suddenly collapsed. The weather was dry, the temperature not very cold, above the extreme rating. But it fell about a 100m, and one of its arms got broken.

After repairing, I started looking into attachable parachute options, because I couldn’t fly it with the same courage. But commercial drones were new to the market, and such products were not available.

Years later, I still have the drone, no a parachute, and a great idea to solve!

Sketches

FreeCAD

Figma

Another alternative for Adobe vector apps, Figma has been a simple tool I have been using for some time now. Through Figma, I came up with a .gif to illustrate the deployment of the parachute.