One design choice made with the Squirrel was that all the parts can be the same width (easy manual fabrication) and many of the parts are the same (easy differentiation). For instance the Wing Center Rib, two Wing Tips, two Winglet Spars and Fin Spar are all exactly the same size.

The Dayton will have a different audience and purpose so I’m working with a different set of design parameters. Part sameness does not seem to be coming forward. So we need a way of identifying the parts. I am going to burn labels onto the parts for the next few runs of the Dayton prototypes. Initially I’ll raster out print type fonts but I’ll eventually switch to vector stick fonts to speed up the fabrication process.

I just cut out a couple of Daytons and will try and get them tested today. As things stand it will be around 7pm (Sunday, September 16th, 2012) so anybody wanting to come and try one let me know!