 | | Re: A few questions... —Dan Novy
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| | | I don't want arial photography, I want to launch a robot a great distance, have it land, deploy, and start taking pics. Similar to the pathfinder mission, but on (obviously) a much smaller scale. I was wondering if anybody had built a container (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: A few questions... —Alex Wetmore
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| | | | | From: "Dan Novy" <nutw4dlj@idt.net> (...) An interesting subproblem here (and one that more people would probably consider tackling) is building the container and robot. The container could land in any orientation (unless heavily weighted on one (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: A few questions... —David Paule
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| | | | | | (...) Two other alternatives would be a weather balloon and a small plane. I've dropped parachute jumpers from my Cessna and under the right conditions might be willing to drop someone else's RCX. The maximum height would be about 3 1/3 mile up; and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: A few questions... —James Powell
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| | | | (...) Its possible. The -egg- contest type people would be first on my list to get in contact with as regards to how to pad it. However, to launch a RCX robot, you are likely talking HPR (High Powered Rocketry, Certificate required) rather than (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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