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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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"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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