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Re: Mindstorms and Bungee Jumping
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:45:37 GMT
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The WordMeister <dwilcox@wordsmithdigital.!StopSpam!com>
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If any of you are having trouble grabbing/viewing the embedded QuickTime
Video of the Bungee jump (at
http://www.legomindstorms.com/home/robotour99/101499e.html ), I managed to
nab it using a machine that doesn't have QT installed, and can post it to
the Web or e-mail it.
I was surprised! The text of the article made me think the robot was doing
something more akin to rappelling, but this is an honest-to-goodness bungee
jump--of a fairly heavy robot yet. (I don't think I'd dare to do it with my
RCX ...)
--Doug Wilcox
-----Original Message-----
From: C S Soh <cssoh@singnet.com.sg>
Newsgroups: lugnet.robotics
To: The WordMeister <dwilcox@wordsmithdigital.com>
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: Mindstorms and Bungee Jumping
> The WordMeister wrote:
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> > A follow-up an a thread which still seems to be batted about:
> >
> > The Lego MindStorms Web site has an article on a MindStorms robot that • made
> > a 30-meter bungee jump. Text, photos, and a QuickTime clip are available • at
> > http://www.legomindstorms.com/home/robotour99/101499e.html
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> Hmmm, so it's been done.
> Well, you never know what you can do with Lego till you try it.
> Skydiving should be a piece of cake.
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> What next?
> Since it has been confirmed that RCXs aren't afraid of heights, may I • suggest a
> cliff hanging bot?
> --
> C S Soh
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> http://web.singnet.com.sg/~cssoh
> ... where air is power
>
>
>
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| (...) What kind of intelligence is needed for a robot to do bungee jumping? How does a Mindstorms robot jump better than, say, a Furby tied to the bungee cord and pushed off the plank? Cheers, Hao-yang Wang (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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