Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02375
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Clarence Harper n9841011@cc.wwu.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:54:03 -0500
Subject: flyingbots (was photopopper)
> Flying bots are quite difficult. this is an extreme understatement.
> The easiest/most effecient design is the mylar blimp idea. However, it is
> very difficult to get these things weighted right. not only that, but the
> ballons themselves are constantly leaking small quantities of helium. So,
> what was floating just right half an hour ago is new softly whirring in
the
> kitchen sink.
>
> this is further complicated by the fact that blimp-photovores' propellers
> cannot provide enough power to counteract even the slightest windcurrents
> one would find in their own house.
>
> I've only seen one really good flying photovore. But the creator's parrot
> attacked it. Go figure.
>
> -Clarence Harper
>
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