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Desmogod

Fri Mar 10 2006, 02:02AM

Registered Member #139 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
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Is anyone else interested in doing a group project.
It would be nice to have something that would involve the entire board, I.T., Chemistry, physics etc etc.

Not sure what we could do, build a rocket and launch a tesla coil satellite spewing out the human genome in binary? I dunno.
Suggestions?

Bjørn

Fri Mar 10 2006, 04:03AM

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I had the same idea a year or two ago. Since even the simplest cooperative projects seems to disintegrate into chaos I gave up on that idea. Maybe it can work if it is organised correctly.

My candidate project is a solar hot air balloon that is launched a place where it has sun 24 hours a day so it stays up all summer or until it has drifted long enough to get into the shadow. It could carry enough payload that everyone would have a chance to fly a small experiment.

Carbon_Rod

Fri Mar 10 2006, 05:11AM

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Japan wants to send a solar saucer up next year,
;p

craigsarea

Fri Mar 10 2006, 10:24AM

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I do agree that a group project would be good, but I don't see it working unless we could meet up in person. We would need a central meeting place like the Geek Group have.

You also get problems like:

* Who would pay for everything?
* Who has the final say?
* Who owns the completed project?

Although I imagine if all the knowledge of the 4HV members was combined we could certainly come up with a pretty awesome project

ragnar

Fri Mar 10 2006, 10:34AM

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I think this is the kind of endeavour that starts with people documenting their individual projects nicely, showing their skills and interests, then ascends into smaller local groups (e.g. you won't find many 4HV people here in Sydney... maybe.. four if you're lucky?) that are able to collaborate in person.

e.g. you might have the sydney wireless lifter, the darwin railgun (TDU and TDU alone, hehehehe ;), and so on, which result as 'group projects' worth documenting on the wiki. Gives 4hv good bragging rights, too - "See what three 4hv members in sydney achieved".

Hehe, anybody been able to find my 20g of 40AWG aluminium enamelled wire, yet? =-D

Part Scavenger

Fri Mar 10 2006, 03:28PM

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Geez, you're still looking for that stuff? I thought you'd found some already.

vasil

Fri Mar 10 2006, 06:00PM

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I don't think that a group project would be a feasible idea, it is hard to acomplish. But we can focus together on a restraint field (ex: SSTCs) and get a proof data collection. This database can be used for an evidence based recomandation list, for all the people who want to build this kind of device. Even, if every guy make his experiments in his own way, there will be always some facts, worthing to be noted.

Ben

Fri Mar 10 2006, 06:13PM

Vigilatny
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The only thing I can think of could work, would be something that could easily be broken up into discrete parts that individuals could build themselves. Hopefully each piece can operate independently, otherwise integration could be tricky.

The other option would be to setup groups in the larger cities. Then of course the next logical step is project mayhem.....

Avalanche

Fri Mar 10 2006, 06:23PM

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What about some distributed internet based thing?

Where parts of a larger project can talk to each other via the net to accomplish something, I dunno, it would take some thinking about but something could be done surely and I would be very interested. I don't mean some massive distributed processing system, not entirely software based - but hardware which hooks to the internet, and people can use it.

It'd be cool to set up an oscillator in one country, and pick up the signal / amplify it and feed it into a bridge in another country, to run an SSTC. Then send feedback data over the internet, to tune the oscillator. Something like that, I know this is very wooly thinking and that is just an example (and quite a pointless idea) but what do you think to something like this? Projects which communicate over the internet or airwaves?

craigsarea

Fri Mar 10 2006, 06:34PM

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wrote ...
What about some distributed internet based thing?

I suspose somesort of HAM radio project would be possible. For a while now I've been thinking about building my own HAM radio receiver and transmitter. I would quite like to build the everything from scratch. I don't really know much about HAM radio so I've got to do some more research first.

The members of this forum who know about HAM radio and general RF design could design a HAM radio receiver and transmitter which could be built by the other members. Maybe we could then communicate with each other via the radio waves?

I've also heard of Slow Scan TV. Would that have any application in this area? Could we have some sort of 4HV Slow Scan TV system?

It seems that a lot of the members of this forum are interested in HAM radio and I imagine some of the members could design a suitable receiver / transmitter. The forum could then help to find bugs and make improvements.

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