A paper airplane launcher designed for Stanford's STEMfest. It uses two brushless RC plane motors to launch planes at a considerable speed, with a guard to keep fingers out of the mechanism. A 1/4-20 heat set insert can be pressed into the bottom to mount onto a tripod.
An overhead mount is included to hold the plane against the flywheel, making it easier for kids to insert planes through the wheels. Note that this restricts the fuselage geometry height.
The motors used on this were ~1000 KV brushless outrunners. It has a 19mm x 16mm hole spacing, no shaft, and threaded holes on the top. These are hard to come across online, so the geometry may need to be modified to accommodate similar brushless motors.
| Launcher_Assembly.f3z | 2.0MB | |
| Launcher_Assembly.step | 3.0MB | |
| Launcher_Base.stl | 142.7KB | |
| Launcher_Finger_Cover.stl | 78.2KB | |
| Launcher_Overhead_Mount.stl | 544.4KB | |
| Launcher_Overhead_Roller.stl | 33.1KB | |
| Launcher_TPU_Wheel_Rim.stl | 550.9KB | |
| Launcher_Wheel_Hub.stl | 96.8KB |
