It does read like I wanted a crash, although this ain't what I was thinking. I was thinking of ERPS in ecstasy, peacock strutting after the last set of launches and what a boost to moral that was and how that would be so nice to see again. I think it will take more time to convert GizmoCopter's flight controls to POGO's flight controls than to go straight for POGO's flight controls direct. I think moral wise it would also be better for ERPS go direct to POGO. It puts you in the ball park
By the wiring I wasn't referring to the simulation. I think you can model the behavior pretty close with software. What I was referring to was the actual physical wiring that would control valves and get input from accelerometers and such. Stand offs and headers, current draw, batteries etc. will all be working in an entirely different environment from GC to POGO, more G's, more vibes, no rotor torque. If the modeling software is so good why do you need Gismocopter to make writing the code easier? It's the timing that will get you and they depend on the devices you use actually working in the real world, so you got to write the code for a specific box to control (or sense) real hardware. It will be development, not design which will make POGO fly.
Randall Clague wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:17:08 -0400, Alex Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If people are working on both Gizmocopter and POGO and now some folks are modeling the testing device (GizmoCopter is a model, right) then I think it would be quicker and cheaper to build POGO and crash it a couple of times (or maybe you get lucky!). It would probably be more fun too!
I find it hard to believe that in your years, you have never witnessed a crash. If you had, you would know that they are not fun. Crashing an amateur rocket, be it Prospector or POGO, is equivalent in money and emotion to crashing a restored Model T. It wrecks thousands of dollars of hardware, and hundreds of hours of work. It is NOT fun.
Just saying your wiring will work because you will follow some set rules just ain't real.
Physics is physics. If Pierce is using MatLab, I'm sure it's up to the task. (Pierce scares me a little. He's as bright as I am, and he doesn't just think outside the box, he chops it up and has it for lunch.)
You have enough space at the ranch to build a safe tethered test device.
Great, send one out. I'm sure the crew will be happy to assemble it and use it.
-R
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