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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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Paul Kleniewski
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Jim Choate
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Paul Kleniewski
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| | | | | but wher is the fun? my skirt has been done as a cut of the sphere the same shapa as the tunnel has to hav (i think) so it was a middle part of sphere without upper and lower domes that's why i said "a little bit hard to do it" :)) you said CD is (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Steve Baker
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| | | | | | | (...) Non-lego motor -- for lower weight and higher RPM. Non-lego skirt -- because there isn't anything in Lego that can do that. Non-lego propellor -- because the Lego ones are crap Non-lego decking -- for lightness and rigidity. ...hmmm it's (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | RE: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Marco Correia
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| | | | | | | | (...) When I was about to give up, after some tests with a non-LEGO propeller and *without* a "skirt", I saw this interview of LEGO Master Builder Hans Madsen ((URL) where he says he made one (I assume) *LEGO* "Hovercraft that really flies": "What (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Steve Baker
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| | | | | | | | (...) So is Hans Madsen on this list? I'm always skeptical of things that are just throwaway lines like that...was this pure lego? How much cheating was involved? There was a couple of photos of a lego helocopter that could really fly on the list a (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Jim Choate
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| | | | | | (...) You'll have to answer that for yourself. A lot of what I find fun would probably bore/scare most to death. For example, I find all these transformers and such that a lot of Mindstorm folks rave over completely and utterly uninteresting, and (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Paul Kleniewski
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| | | | | | "Jim Choate" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0...ssz.com... (...) no comments man! i've been asking rhetotical :)))) i've got fun experimenting even if i know they lead to nowhere (...) what is with your sense of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Steve Baker
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| | | | (...) The micro cars (the ones about an inch long) are down to $30 - including two channel RC and battery charger. However, the motors aren't all that powerful. I read somewhere that the motors they are using are from the 'vibrators' inside pagers (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —David Koudys
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| | | | | (...) to how to do it... After work I'm going home and rip apart my modified 8448, take the 8475 motors out of it, and throw on a znap prop on those motors and see what the air flow's like. Putting my current project on hold, I'll try and whip (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | RE: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Marco Correia
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| | | | | | Hi Dave :) (...) Cool :) (...) I'm thinking of a thin "plastic film" usually used to wrap around food to keep it fresh and air tight (I don't know how's it called in english). mc. (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —David Koudys
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| | | | | | (...) I was thinking of more a complete LEGO solution--the only thing non-LEGO in my plans is the skirt, which probably will be a bicycle innertube. What I plan first is to get hte motor, the fan and turn it on and see if I can dry my hair with it (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard") —Jim Choate
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| | | | (...) We aren't interested in power, we're interested in moving a volume of air. They are very fast, high rpm. Trade off rpm with suitable gearing. You may need two or more (which is why small may be better). I've never used them myself except for (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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