That wasn't a spacebridge thing, that was a Project Bacchus thing, and we never used it because it wasn't quite responsive enough, and it really only worked along two axes; but it's called a picavet, I got the idea from kite arial photogpraphy:<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/video-mits-quadrocopter-carries-kinect-autonomous-flying">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/video-mits-quadrocopter-carries-kinect-autonomous-flying</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>--S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gian.pablo@gmail.com">gian.pablo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hey, at one point Shannon showed me a really cool system for hanging a<br>
payload from a Spacebridge balloon, that would self-level.<br>
<br>
I'm in need of suspending a relatively heavy load that needs to level<br>
itself easily.<br>
<br>
Is there any documentation on the technique that Spacebridge used?<br>
Perhaps it has a technical name?<br>
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