I love making model rockets with my friends and family. At school I am a leading member of the rocketry society, where we design and make solid-fuel rockets to launch on the school fields. I have built a few rockets from Estes kits, and I have also designed some of my own using simple cardboard tubes and 3D printed components.
Pictured below [in the orange] is a parametric motor mount that I designed. You can enter the tube, motor and fin dimensions into Fusion 360 and the part can be printed with no supports. The purple nosecone is made the same way.
I have also designed some high performance rocketry components. One being a mechanical stage-release module for a large rocket school project during lockdown, where we wanted to break the UK altitude record.
More recently, I designed a 3D printed nose-tip that will fix onto a Kevlar-carbon-fibre composite nosecone, and deploy 4 springy landing legs when it detaches from the rocket. This was going to be for the UKRoc competition, where the aim is to fly an egg to a precise altitude and return it and the rocket safely.
3D printed carboard tube rocket
3D printed motor mount with fins
A small vinyl-wrapped rocket
