On 6/20/06, Tom Longson (nym) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Harder to make an unmanned aerial balloon/kite though.
Not necessarily. :) What's the actual wind like out there? Schuyler had a post about this earlier: http://www.iconocla.st/index.cgi/2005/Feb/16#send-in-the-hoverbots I worked on autonomous airships in University, and you could probably put one together for ~ $500. Batteries are the biggest problem (solar-arrays on airships are cool, but impratical for the time being). Andrew -- Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42.4266N x 83.4931W http://highearthorbit.com Northville, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
