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Posted by Curt Welch on April 27, 2008, 11:55 pm
> On Apr 27, 4:07 pm, c...@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) wrote:
> > It seems however that maintaining their ability to float would be hard.
> > Can you build a helium balloon which could last weeks or months without
> > being refilled?
> > Curt Welch
> I had similar thoughts about the helium fish. I figured I could use
> water as ballast, which would be released to maintain neutral
> buoyancy.
So they piss on people as well! Precious! :)
> I though if water were sprayed out, in a fine mist, that
> this would be an acceptable way to dumb ballast.
Make them smart enough to water the plants! :)
> But perhaps we are
> making it too hard. Just manually adjusting ballast once a day may be
> enough.
> Recharging batteries on a regular basis is another task. Ideally, as
> a robot, it would find its own charging station.
Finding it's own "food" would be highly important for any type of robot I
would set loose in the world with the desire to survive.
I can't help but think how cool it would be to make a robot smart enough to
wonder around the world, avoid being caught, but be smart enough to find
electrical outlets to charge itself with. :)
The same would be cool if the "fish" were smart enough to swim down and
find outlets to plug into if you couldn't get enough power from sunlight so
that you wouldn't have to install special power stations for them to dock
at.
> Perhaps a few areas
> at the ceiling can be made so that the fish can go there to "feed" by
> simply swimming up to it and making contact with antenna-like
> devices. They spend the day just swimming until they detect a low
> battery, and then seek the nearest recharging station.
> I doubt it would be viable to have hundreds of fish. Each fist would
> be a minimum of 3 or 4 feet long. You don't want to crowd them too
> much.
Well, in a large mall, one with 100+ stores, that's just 1 fish per store
on average - not all that crowded - just very "busy" with fish. If you
only had something like 10 fish, people would have to run around looking
for them before they would find one. It would all depend on how big the
location was and how big the fish had to be to carry their hardware. Just
one would still be cool.
> For a school of small fish, perhaps it is best to make them as a
> single blimp, with the small fish hanging from a larger blimp like a
> mobile. (if you put a weight in the nose of the fish, and then hang
> it from just behind the weight, the fish will act like a wind vain and
> follow the direction of travel)
> Joe Dunfee
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