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Re: Its a Bird! Its a Plane! No, its an RCX!?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:08:58 GMT
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"Josh Hunter" <optijosh@cs.com> wrote in message
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> Hey! Anyone thought about making their rcx airborne? I figure we can do it
> with helium(lots and lots of helium) or with a hot air ballon. You could • set
> up propellers and use a skid steering system. Yeah it would be reeeeeally
> difficult but i think Dave could do it. You could pretty much use the same
> principles for a submersible rcx, only water proofing would be way hard.
> plus it wounldnt be pure lego. well what do you think?
I've seen RCX's used for this sort of thing before - one that comes to mind
is one with a heat sensor to measure aitr temp at different heights, and
another was a glider than used a micromotor to adjust the balance and so
steer the aircraft. I seem to remember seeing these on the LEGO Mindstorms
site in the member's area - there are some crazy people around!
Dan
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| Hey! Anyone thought about making their rcx airborne? I figure we can do it with helium(lots and lots of helium) or with a hot air ballon. You could set up propellers and use a skid steering system. Yeah it would be reeeeeally difficult but i think (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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