Ripsaw - GPS Auto Waypoint Navigation.

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Ripsaw - GPS Auto Waypoint Navigation.

Post by Bronze » 20 November 07 5:27 pm

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RipSaw I


Scroll down and check out the video with the two guys in front of the barn door.

http://www.howeandhowe.com/videos.htm

These are the Howe Brothers and they have developed RipSaw and 80mph Track Vehicle (315hp) that can accelerate from 0-50mph in 3.5 seconds.

They entered Ripsaw 1 into the DARPA comp and this is a test run to see if there GPS gear can navigate the RipSaw around a flat field. Quite impressive. Not new technology by any means but good to watch all the same.

Thought some people here might be interested when I saw this clip. Thanks to VWNuts who first showed me the homepage link.

Now it just needs a fluro shirt, an arm, a spoon and it's own pen. :D

B.

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp

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