A local high-school science club was developing a remote control cave rover for rescue apps. That'd be cool.
They had MIT startup grant money, too. I think it will be on line soon.
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SpeleoRover wrote:A local high-school science club was developing a remote control cave rover for rescue apps. That'd be cool.
They had MIT startup grant money, too. I think it will be on line soon.
SpeleoRover wrote:They were developing a mini-rover with GPS triangulation capabilities through links to surface base stations.
Stridergdm wrote:I've got to admit I'm dubious as to how GPS would fit in with this as far as the rover goes. I can see surface stations having GPS and using some sort of triangulation from those, but even that seems far-fetched given how well radio waves don't tend to penetrate. ;-)
Still could be interesting
BrianFrank wrote:I would break just enough formations to get through to virgin passage under the following conditions:
- The cave was fully explored, all passages exhausted except for this location.
- Cave owner permission.
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