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To: Poohbah
Knew some folks that worked for a Texas autopilot company that built these things for what they described as being a "commercial customer".

All the control servos were standard RC stuff right from a hobby shop. Used a 20 hp two cycle (big weed eater) engine. Could do fully autonomic flight for eight hours on internal autopilot (slaved to GPS). Could carry ~100 lb payload. Cost about $15k to build.

111 posted on 02/24/2003 6:08:28 PM PST by farmguy
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To: farmguy
Sure, you can go online and buy the parts right now..

Probably do it with a $10.00 PIC microcontroller, GPS, accelerometer and gyro.

You can get a garden sprayer at WalMart for about $10.00 also and a use pickup for a few thousand..

Or, you could use a large, industrial tank and an onboard compressor to pressurize it (maybe even put the vehicles own AC compressor and magnetic clutch to use here and save about $20.00) if you need more volume..

Or, you could do a million, zillion other things for a few thousand bucks.

This is just complete paranoia, what I am seeing here..

It's amazing. I have never been so ashamed of the US.

I can practically hear people duct taping themselves in their houses as I type.

114 posted on 02/24/2003 6:14:33 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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