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I came across this 'Remote-Controlled Indoor Triple-Turbo Blimp' for $90. (URL) do you guys think in terms of RCX applications? E.g. you could build a Lego bot for the remote control, therefore enabling the blimb to be steered by the RCX. What about (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Heh, I've had the same idea bouncing around my head for the past few days. I have a Blimp (only two fans though) and a Saucer already. Great fun for blimp races and so on. Quick tip, you can find more RC blimp stuff from the source: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) camera (...) to (...) Ahh, I spoke too soon. Digging into the plantraco.com pages, I found that the new tri-fan can lift up to 90 grams (I've got the old two-fan). They even list a wireless b/w cam on the order page (coming soon). (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Reimer Mellin" <davmel@primenet.com> wrote in message news:FM0v13.FJJ@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) htm (...) a (...) steered (...) some (...) the (...) I assume the blimp will have neutral buoyancy, e.g. no weight in the standard configuration. Any (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Mark Sullivan <lego-ln@markbs.com> wrote in message news:FM1216.9Kt@lugnet.com... (...) $90. (...) boyancy as (...) attached (...) Yeah, I was thinking about getting 1 or 2 extra blimbs tieing them together to achieve more lift. (...) the (...) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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In their FAQ they mention that they have to add balalst to the fan unit to achieve nuetral bouyancy so we could probably get a bit more lift by removing that... hmm. I gotta get me one of these : ) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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