Wednesday 29 August 2012

Pi-Space Skunkworks PDF Carousel Doc

I've created a pdf and html for the Carousel idea.

It's in the right rail.

It's first draft at present.

Note: I just updated it to include the Carousel with the Slugs.  They were missing in the first draft.

Saturday 25 August 2012

One more post on the Skunkworks piece and then I'm back to the theory proper

I'll cover two basic theoretical setups for the Carousel in the PDF. There are more but I'd like to leave it at this for now.

1. Spinning on its own. To stabilize we'll need to extend the width of it. Mostly I see this as the least sophisticated design.

2. Coming up with a design where it's not spinning but lifting. So we need two; Spin + Counter Spin on either end to cancel one another. Separate them and one can theoretically store some stuff (possibly people plus equipment) between them.

Also, I'll propose general improvements to my prototype. I don't have the resources or the time (and maybe even the engineering skills) to pull this off. But maybe someone else does and can either prove or disprove the idea. The core elements are in the demo just to prove the principle.

Then that's it. I'll pull this together into a single PDF and be back to the the Theory "Proper".

This will be called the "Pi-Space Skunkworks 'Brady Carousel' Design Paper".