Video-Blimp at the '98 Philadelphia show
Video-Blimp debut - February 1998
Link to another site with picture and description of
Video-Blimp's debut.
The snout was made from parts I found at a crafts store. The bright spheres are colored wooden beads for stringing, the flat pieces are precut wooden shapes, and the whole thing is held together by having 8 lenghts of elastic threaded through all the pieces. The side-to-side movement is controlled by push-pull from the forward servo, and up-down is controlled by pull in the up direction by the rear servo. A rubber band is used to apply downward pressure on the snout. This not only made rigging easier, but it also functioned as a servo saver by preventing excessive downward pressure from being applied.
The Manta at rest and at play.
All the fancy bits (and a lot of tape to hold it all
together).
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the hardware and operational details
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