<div dir="ltr">Should be fun.<div><br></div><div>I think a lot of people are really at the beginning so we'd need some easy ones like:</div><div><br></div><div>-length of time hovering over a square</div><div>-flying around one of the posts in the warehouse. Perhaps time 10 turns...</div><div><br></div><div>And we could publish a leader-board....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><br></div><div><div>--</div><div>Darcy Whyte</div><div><br></div><div>Art+ <a href="http://inventorartist.com/" target="_blank">inventorArtist.com</a> | Aviation <a href="http://rubber-power.com/" target="_blank">rubber-power.com</a></div><div>Contact: <a href="mailto:darcy@inventorArtist.com" target="_blank">darcy@inventorArtist.com</a> | 613-563-3634 by appointment (no text)</div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Dave Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@huntgang.com" target="_blank">dave@huntgang.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">OK, so anyone that has been out to a <span>modlab</span> in the last month or so has likely seen a few <span>Nano</span> Quads flying around like the CX10 available from eBay, AliExpress, etc. These little Quads are only about $20 and don't cause severe lacerations when contacting innocent bystanders and even seem to be fairly resilient.<div><br></div><div>A bunch of members have started picking them up and on Wednesday there were 5 flying around the room like a small swarm of bees buzzing about.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyways, a couple people have suggested formalizing some challenges / races so I thought I would see what I could dig up in terms of ideas. So far this is what I have found floating around the Internet.</div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Sink-hole - fly down through a large diameter cardboard tube - perhaps 1ft diameter, 2-3 ft tall - tricky because you can't see what's happening inside the tube</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">You've Got Mail - fly through a rectangular opening the size of a standard letter</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Silhouette - break through a sheet of tissue paper</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Lay-up - fly up through one horizontal hoop and immediately down through an adjacent horizontal hoop</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Time tunnel - fly through a series of vertical hoops - at least 3</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Crew cut - Trim hanging strips of tissue paper, more points the shorter you can cut it</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Limbo - fly under low bar</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Thin Lizzy - fly through a narrow gap between two cardboard walls</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Slalom - fly through staggered gates</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Quad Shy - try to knock over a stack of paper cups</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Ivory Tower - land on top of a tall tower, with a small landing area - thinking 6 inch diameter</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal">Another option might be to attach the tissue streamers to the bottom of the Quads and dog fight each other. This may be slightly better than trying to crash into each other....</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="line-height:normal">Bonus points for adding a flip into any of the above...</span></li><li style="line-height:17px"><span style="line-height:normal">Double Bonus points if we hack together some kind of automatic timer to have timed races... ;)</span></li></ul><div>I welcome more ideas from everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>Once we get some solid ideas we can maybe setup a few official times to meet. I am thinking maybe Sunday afternoons at Maker Space North as it is an awesome indoor facility which many of us attend anyways although some Sundays are clean up days from the party the night before...</div><div><br></div><div>If you have not already purchased your quad, I really suggest you grab one. They really are a lot of fun and it's small enough my wife lets me fly it in the house. </div><div><br></div><div>PS: If you order one make sure to also purchase a bunch of extra blades; if you are anything like me and tend to crash it while learning to fly, they will come in handy!</div><div><br></div><div>Happy flying!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Dave</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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