Updates on Project Leticia!
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There is only a few weeks left to testdrive!
http://www.projectleticia.com/step8-0.html
There is only a few weeks left to testdrive!
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
These guys are making an unmanned (well, remote control) wakeboard boat for single-person wakeboarding. If you drop the ski rope the boat will circle around and come back for you. You can control speed and direction of the boat from the wakeboarder's position, maybe via the handle. Hmmm. There must be some reason for having three people the usual wakeboarding mix (one boarder, boat driver, flag person), but like unmanned aerial vehicles and Segway, this concept is so strange maybe no rules can easily be applied to such an idea.
This is kind of like riding on a rocket. Maybe there's less liability in Sweden, too.
I think it would be safer to turn this into an autonomous Salmon fishing boat.
Interesting idea and I hope to see it in use by these students.
- Ken
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
Ken
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
It may get 'unstable' after the skier has had an accident or two...
It's better to use some sort of 'dead man's switch' in the handle that he must keep depressed at all times.
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