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Re: PipeXplorer
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:14:36 GMT
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I think Fisher Price makes a wireless video baby monitor. Perhaps this
could be hacked into what you need.
Dave
> From: CyberUser [SMTP:CyberUser@mksftwre.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 4:18 PM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: PipeXplorer
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> In message <4.1.19981223125736.00a090f0@195.61.90.220>, Laurentino
> Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt> writes
> > Anybody ever seen a similar project?
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> Yes - check out Gantenbrink's robot which was used to explore shafts
> inside the Giza pyramid. This one cost a lot of money though! It had to
> travel about 200 feet with only about 8 inch cross-section. You might
> get some ideas for the expanding structure and treads though.
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> It also had a colour camera with zoom on it and a laser pointer to shine
> into cracks.
> Anyone know how of a small legal video transmitter of sensible price to
> avoid a cable? The actual camera can be CCD a few centimetres square so
> that is not a problem.
>
> Dennis
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| I would look in "Spy" stores for transmitters. I'm sure anything that transmits more than a few meters would be limited in some way by the FCC (in the US). Also, you have to take into consideration how the pipe or tunnel will affect the signal. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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