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Re: Making Lego airborne
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:37:28 GMT
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Daniel A. Segel <daniels@netcom./ihatespam/com>
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Neither the micro-motor nor the geared motor turn anywhere near fast enough
to even generate a stiff breeze, much less lift something.
The old 9V motor is faster, but probably not fast enough.
Daniel
At 10:29 AM 3/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Is the micro-motor powerful enough to lift a
> > small helicopter. What about the geared motor or the older motor that
> > is found in the space shuttle.
>
> I seriously doubt you'll get any Lego motor to lift itself off the ground. I
> tried to use a Lego propeller and the older motor to push a small wheeled
> vehicle *horizontally* across the kitchen floor with very little success. I
> can think of two alternatives:
> 1) use a gas powered R/C motor under RCX control
> 2) use a blimp (I think someone was working on this one).
--
"Being humble is why I'm a great person."
Daniel A. Segel
daniels@netcom.com
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| daniels@netcom.com (Daniel A. Segel) wrote in <4.2.2.2000032408361...tcom.com>: (...) I played with this some. The motors definately can not lift them selves. But I did come up with a pure LEGO flying contraption. It is actually pretty simplistic. I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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