Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02365
To: JVernonM@aol.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:31:36 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Photohopper
Perhaps a parachute might work as well, or even better. Or maybe, if you did
use the hang glider, it could give one last kick before it went off the
edge, like a person running and jumping.
Any thoughts?
Signing off,
Rob Rix
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'I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue' - from Airplane
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>From: JVernonM@aol.com
>To: richard@cqc.com
>Subject: Re: Photohopper
>Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999, 12:33 AM
>
> I had an idea of instead of wings it could have a folded hang glider type of
> wing. It would have a piggy back cap that held a charge activated by a cliff
> sensor. When the bot runs of the end of the table the wing deploys and it
> sails gracefully down to the floor. I don't know if this would work, but I
> think it would be easier mechanics than a flapper and all the aerodynamics
> involved.
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