Projects03In progress
Model Rocket
Building a competition-standard model rocket: fibreglass body tubes on a mandrel I designed and printed.
1 · What I did
- Last year I was on the Hyperion upper-stage team (Titan was the booster): CAD, all the 3D printing, and a full day of fibreglass layup, mixing epoxy to the right ratio and cutting each layer’s cloth larger as the tube grows.
- Manufactured body sections with epoxy and fibreglass cloth layup (first time using composites and OpenRocket).
- Designed and 3D-printed a custom mandrel for body-tube fabrication. I iterated it smaller and added an internal square-mesh lattice for rigidity, and split large parts across prints to fit the printer, then joined them.
- Designed in OpenRocket alongside SolidWorks, tuning iteratively against predictions.
2 · Status
Not launched yet. This year Hyperion and Titan have merged into one team, and we’re reworking the booster CAD ahead of a rebuild. Launch date to be confirmed.
3 · Why it matters
This is where my 3D-printing skills grew. They carried straight into owning all the printing on the quadcopter.