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- Subject: Newbi Question
- Date: 21 Jul 1992 22:57:54 -0500
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- > I am not a professional programmer, nor will I be if someone out
- > there on the net sends me $50,000. Nonetheless, a news item percolated
- > to the front of my consciousness and I was interested in following
- > it up.
- > A while ago (more than a month, I think) I saw a clip on NBC news
- > about engineers/scientists at MIT (?) building a flying robot that
- > worked through carefully controlled blasts of compressed air.
- > Is there an article in a journal that gives a "fuzzy" treatment
- > of the design? I am but a Junior at Va Tech majoring in Math and
- > Physics with a minor in CS, so an article crammed full of circuit
- > diagrams is useless.
- > Thanks in advance,
- > Richard O'Connell
- > Va Tech
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