{"id":791,"date":"2008-09-16T03:47:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T08:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=791"},"modified":"2008-09-16T03:47:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T08:47:48","slug":"driving-me-up-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/791","title":{"rendered":"Driving Me Up a Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Hog Zero G micro car.  Think &#8220;reverse hovercraft&#8221; \u2014 a fan inside makes it hug the wall or ceiling.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UPw4qYG7Tsw?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UPw4qYG7Tsw?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The car is 6&#8243; long and perhaps 3&#8243; wide, and the shipping weight of the whole thing is 2 lbs, so let&#8217;s say that 1 lb is for the car.  (sorry, no SI units for this.  Imperial units given, and this is just a quick &#8216;n dirty analysis)  So you need somewhere around 0.1 psi of pressure differential generated by the fan to have it &#8220;stick&#8221; to the ceiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Hog Zero G micro car. Think &#8220;reverse hovercraft&#8221; \u2014 a fan inside makes it hug the wall or ceiling. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The car is 6&#8243; long and perhaps 3&#8243; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39,63],"tags":[75,397,408,514,530],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-physics","category-video","tag-air-hog-zero-g","tag-pressure","tag-radio-control-car","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}