[Geowanking] Mapping Burning Man

[Andrew Turner]

On 6/20/06, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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

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