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This Fish Needs a Bicycle!

By Alex in Animal, Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle on Jul 14, 2006 at 1:02 am


That’s Seth Weiner’s art project, a vehicle called Terranaut:

"The vehicle conveys a fish-pilot, or Terranaut, in an aqueous vessel that is propelled by two drive wheels, each driven by its own highly efficient servomotor. The vehicle’s power is stored in a bank of electrical cells that deliver energy ot the motors at 36 volts.

The Terranaut swims safely in an aqueous vessel called the "cockpit" steering the vehicle with its movements. A camera above the cockpit tracks the movement of the Terranaut within the vessel. The Terranaut’s location is then wirelessly transmitted to a remote processing station, where the data is converted into motion commands and transmitted back to the motion controller on the vehicle"

Link – via Miss Cellania


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  1. Ron
    Jul 14th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    Ms. Stien would approve.

  2. Avatar
    Jul 14th, 2006 at 3:39 pm

    That is right out of "The Far Side". Gary Larson would heartily approve.

  3. angellesmell
    Nov 19th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    i want that for my fish! i shouldnt have let him die

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