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Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:00:29 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@(stopspam)airmail.net>
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Marco Correia wrote:
> 3) Is there a LEGO-only way to generate enough air flow (pressure) ?
The experiments we've done with the helicopter suggest that you can
generate some pretty impressive volumes of fairly slow moving air -
but high speed/low volume is hard.
The RDS insect wings that we used on our helicopter work really well,
but I don't think they'd be much use for a helicopter unless you had
a funnel to take the large volume low speed air and speed it up into
a narrow stream that could inflate a hovercraft's skirt.
I've seen toy hovercraft that worked well with very small motors.
> One solution to "trap" the air underneath the unit is to build a LEGO
> framework (as light as possible) and then use plastic film (that used to
> keep vegetables fresh etc) to create something like the bottom of an
> hovercraft.
Hmmm - interesting.
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