Which doesn't quite make sense. Leonid meteors are left over comet streams, not rocks from an exploding planet. Oops, I just spoolied the movie for the hundreds of/.ers who haven't seen it yet.
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I rigged up my model 98 to my helicopter once, its pretty small and quiet ( electric and rotor diameter of about 1.5 meters)
Problem was, there was too much recoil from the gun, it knocked the chopper around. Never used it in a game, but it could have been a cool weapon.
unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
Lets not get reckless and spend too much on a high end CPU now, 75MHz is plenty for anyone.
In my experience, and ethernet controller is an ethernet controller is an ethernet controller is an , etc.. As long as you can plug it in an have it work.
Assuming you could get the weight of everything down to about 4 pounds (using my Dell Inspiron 2100 as a pretty good example of how light a full comptuer can be)
To lift a 4 pound payload, you will need just under 100 cubic feet of helium. Thats a big balloon.
Me thinks you'll have to stick with a rotory wing or ducted fan idea to fit inside your house.
Sure I do. The rotors are only 20" in diameter and it doesn't make much moise.
Although rotors hitting walls and lamps at +1000rpm generally aren't a good thing.
Making it hover wouldn't be too hard. My little helicopter is pretty quite, but it does blow around papers and stuff when I fly it inside. So maybe I wouldn't want it flying around on its own all the time.
Here is a picture of it, it doesn't have it's fuselage on cause I was working on the mechanics when I took the pic.
http://chemonics.net/images/heli002.jpg
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Appearently, this /. story has pushed it down to the 2nd worst movie, although it has ten times as many votes as the #1 movie.
IMDB needs to adjust their ranking system.
Which doesn't quite make sense. Leonid meteors are left over comet streams, not rocks from an exploding planet. Oops, I just spoolied the movie for the hundreds of /.ers who haven't seen it yet.
Unless Nasa is lying to us.
Thats good to hear.
I'm heading off GMU's Fairfax campus down to the Hemlock overlook park about 3am with my camera and some friends, should be a good show.
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I rigged up my model 98 to my helicopter once, its pretty small and quiet ( electric and rotor diameter of about 1.5 meters)
Problem was, there was too much recoil from the gun, it knocked the chopper around. Never used it in a game, but it could have been a cool weapon.
Damn you Trebeck!
beat me to pointing that out.
Anyone else notice that their "variable speed trigger" on their minigun is powered by what looks like a standard cordless power drill?
unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
Lets not get reckless and spend too much on a high end CPU now, 75MHz is plenty for anyone.
In my experience, and ethernet controller is an ethernet controller is an ethernet controller is an , etc.. As long as you can plug it in an have it work.
The Piccolo is great, I must have crashed mine 50 times, and it just gets glued back together.
:)
It can clear all the papers out of cubical in like 20 seconds with the down wash from the rotors, thats why I stopped flying it around the office
Sadly though, I have co-workers who would write a sentence similiar to that line.
Assuming you could get the weight of everything down to about 4 pounds (using my Dell Inspiron 2100 as a pretty good example of how light a full comptuer can be)
To lift a 4 pound payload, you will need just under 100 cubic feet of helium. Thats a big balloon.
Me thinks you'll have to stick with a rotory wing or ducted fan idea to fit inside your house.
You'll need a helluva lot of helium to lift Pentium3 based computer, batteries, motors, etc.... Hope you have a big house :)
Sure I do. The rotors are only 20" in diameter and it doesn't make much moise. Although rotors hitting walls and lamps at +1000rpm generally aren't a good thing.
Making it hover wouldn't be too hard. My little helicopter is pretty quite, but it does blow around papers and stuff when I fly it inside. So maybe I wouldn't want it flying around on its own all the time. Here is a picture of it, it doesn't have it's fuselage on cause I was working on the mechanics when I took the pic. http://chemonics.net/images/heli002.jpg
Actually, they were gasoline powered russian boots. They just fired a piston downward when you steped hard enough.