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truestorys
Dec 17, 2006, 07:18 AM
I need an Electronics Wizard to help design this black box

We were standing around at our flying field yesterday and just kicking rocks because the wind was too strong to fly.

One guy did throw his plane up and we all stood around and critiqued his flying. Then this Thought Bubble entered my head:

What if all 10 of us could fly the same plane?

What if all 10 of us didn’t know we had control of the aircraft?

But one of us did have control?

Wouldn’t we all be standing around hooting and hollering and laughing at the poor guy that randomly got picked to fly the airplane?

So, if you are an electronics wizard, take a look at this photo diagram.
Maybe this has already been done and you can point me toward a product. Maybe this is so easy to build that it’s child play.

Don

The Other Dave
Dec 17, 2006, 08:09 AM
I need an Electronics Wizard to help design this black box

We were standing around at our flying field yesterday and just kicking rocks because the wind was too strong to fly.

One guy did throw his plane up and we all stood around and critiqued his flying. Then this Thought Bubble entered my head:

What if all 10 of us could fly the same plane?

What if all 10 of us didn’t know we had control of the aircraft?

But one of us did have control?

Wouldn’t we all be standing around hooting and hollering and laughing at the poor guy that randomly got picked to fly the airplane?

So, if you are an electronics wizard, take a look at this photo diagram.
Maybe this has already been done and you can point me toward a product. Maybe this is so easy to build that it’s child play.

Don

You woudn't need the laptop interface you could use a PRBS (psudo random bit sequence) generator for the enable binaries.

Troy
Dec 18, 2006, 03:01 PM
If you are a decent pilot you'd be able to "feel" you had the plane within a few moments of flying. But I've seen a similar trick played on someone where they were handed off a Tx (dummy Tx) assuming it was flying the plane in the air while another guy was in the background flying it. The surprising thing was that it took the prank subject a while to figure out he wasn't flying it. Could have been the loops and rolls he didn't plan.... ;)