Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson University Team Blimp Presentation 2010 Championship

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Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson University Team Blimp Presentation 2010 Championship

13-04-2010, 16:29

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Re: Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson University Team Blimp Presentation 2010 Champions

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Originally Posted by JamesBrown

Blimps are a really cool platform to program, when they are weighted and balanced properly you can control them extremely well.

...and then there's that inversion layer in the Georgia Dome about halfway up that can take an unwary bimp right to the roof...

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