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(...) Bingo. (...) Take a look at some of these micro motors that are being used in the new mini-RC cars. You can buy a whole car kit, radio, and controller for about $75US. (...) A helo tail rotor is your best bet. Wood or a composite is your best (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's not one formula. The first hurdle is to balance the force of gravity. F=ma m is the weight of the hovercract assembly. a is the -negative- acceleration due to gravity. F is the total force the fan must provide. Then you've got to figure (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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hi! so i did tests and my discoveries are sad 1. pure turbine has to be placed in some kind of tunnel but not exactly funnel the tunnel has to be as a part of ball (sphere) without hats :)) at the upper and the lower side because the stream of air (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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(...) Thanks Max, I have now got the latest version of BrickOS and will try to reinstall cygwin. Thanks for your help. John. (23 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Weird. Sounds like your install of Cygwin is corrupt. Max. (23 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks Max, in running the instructions mentioned above, I entered the following in a bash shell, with the following responses. Sorry about the volume of this but it is all there. Any answers would be appreciated. $ cd /legos-0.2.6 $ make (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
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(...) LOL! No ! I myself am doing tests with a non-LEGO one also. it would be nice if it could use a LEGO motor... and material usually found in every home, so anyone could build one... if we ever find a way to make it possible. (...) Yep. Do you (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
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if i will use non lego or znap propeler will you disqualificate me? :) be cause IMO some kind of turbine is needed here i'll try to do it tonight (23 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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The lugnet registration takes forever :) After reading this post a light went on in my head. A few weeks ago I wrote a multi-threaded program for the RCX (about 7 threads, each running an endless loop). When I added one more thread, the robot (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
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pixel wrote (...) yup, I confirmed that yesterday :/ though now I have a nice ZNAP micro ventilator, for the hot summer, ehehe now... let's see what happens tonight, with the 9v ungeared LEGO motor and a non-LEGO propeller together with an "air (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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