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Re: PipeXplorer
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:50:37 GMT
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Daniel McCarty <delete.mcdan@csi.com>
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CyberUser wrote:
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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.
I remember seeing the show on Discovery. Didn't it end up getting
completely stuck after it triggered a "booby trap" where a chunk of stone fell
into a pre-designed notch in the shaft?
> 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.
Transmitting the video would be much better. They were always worrying
about their huge mass of cabling. Anyway, I seem to remember a unit from an
Ohio electronics company (Allied Electronics?) that was between $150 - $300
and a few inches square by 1/4" thick.
Regards,
Daniel.
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| In message <4.1.19981223125736....1.90.220>, Laurentino Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt> writes (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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