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Re: Lego Apache?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 10 Jul 1999 01:03:36 GMT
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Hmmmm .. hate to say this, but this project is shelfed until I can get more
legos
:)
I'll take pictures of what I have so far, and then post a few to give it scale
...
I'll post my website when I get it done ...
-Lee.
Lee Jorgensen wrote:
> "Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
>
> > That sounds cool. You should make sure to publish images of that when
> > it's finished.
>
>
> Of course ... I, er ... my wife just got a new camera (non-digital) and
> hopefully I can get some good pics of it ...
>
> >
> > Oh, and by the way, you have seen these large Technic helicopters,
> > right?
> >
> > http://homepages.tesco.net/~andrew.bissell/APACHE.HTM
> > http://homepages.tesco.net/~andrew.bissell/STEVE.HTM
>
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> I haven't run across these before ... thanks for the links. They're
> pretty
> cool.
>
> >
> > And Leo Dorst's helicopter rotor is a good inspiration as well:
> >
> > http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leo/lego/rotor.html
> >
> > Fredrik
>
> I'm planning to use an adaptation of this design for my model.
>
> I also plan on motorizing the model, though, I fear that it might
> overpower
> a single motor. What would be really nice, would be to have a switch that
>
> would sweep a voltage over a range ...
>
> + ...... 0 ...... - (so full + would be +9 volts, 0 would be 0 volts
> (duh) and
> - would be -9 volts. And in halfway between + and 0 would be +4.5 volts,
> etc. That way you could have a tail rotor that would have a fixed pitch,
> and
> vary the voltage to control your yaw)
>
> --
> Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc.
> mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc
> mailto:ljorgensen@uswest.ten <-- reverse ten
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