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Nick
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Joined: 16 Jun 2004
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Location: Sydney, NSW
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I am not so sure. Its true that cars have more mass and could be more dangerous if they 'ran away', but on the other hand they are more stable and probably easier to fit controls to (think 'power steering, brakes and automatic gears'). Running them could take more space depending on their stopping distance and turning circle, but I think all we need is an embankment that they cannot drive up to keep us safe. It would definitely be a good safety idea to limit speeds to something sane.
Its becoming clear that several of our more interesting ideas need special venues - jousting, submarines and climbing, just to name a few. perhaps we should think of some venues before we get too excited about them?
One really 'out there' possibility for jousting is to have a test run, film it, then see if we can run it as a demo at a car racing event - possibly too ambitious, but it would definitely be exciting if we pulled it off. I will ask an amateur racing friend about venues next week.
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Mon May 17, 2010 12:13 am |
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Nick
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Location: Sydney, NSW
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Definitely not, we want this to be relatively cheap and spread across a team of at least 4 builders. I was thinking about a generic rule that imposed a penalty related to the quantity of new parts VS scrap. IE If a device was 50% new parts, it would be penalised 50% of the criteria for that event. That could apply to time, weight, outright score, speed or whatever and would make an expensive new build quite unattractive.
The message I want to convey is that big things don't really have to cost more than smaller, lighter scrapheap machines. For every free van I have, I am sure there are several $100 cars available. If we can't afford to do something with cars or bikes, then EVs are still interesting and stationary devices like siege engines are even cheaper - I just salvaged about 50% of the frame for either option for the cost of a walk down the street
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Mon May 17, 2010 12:47 am |
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