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Fish Car
An advanced fish self steering transport. | |
Where would fish go if they could travel on
land. I have always wondered this. So I
propose an experimental vehicle to find
out. I have found a few similar ideas, but it
seems they all require the fish bowl to
acually roll. Well, not this one. Inspired by
the Darpa Challenge (www.darpa.mil/
grandchallenge/)
my design requires the
fish bowl to be mounted on a 4 to 6 wheel
drive system. There would also need to be
a little computer and other special
electionic items mounted on board (not
my specialty). Basically the fish would have
a small chip on or embedded in its head.
The only info you need to get from it is
what direction the fish is facing in and
how fast his/her little tail is wiggling. This
can be translated into speed and direction
in the computer. I settled on the awd
system because I thought the first
experiment could be to leave the Fish
Vehicle at the top of a beach and see if the
little guy goes for the ocean. It would also
be interesting to see what happens if you
have multiple vehicles and fish that school
together. The mental image is fantastic. It
could give a whole new meaning to Land
Shark. Definitely a conversation piece.
car(p)
[hob,
Feb 25 2010]
Prototype Update
http://www.popsci.c...ldfish-drive-around
After 9 long years the prototype is complete [zamondo, Apr 24 2015]
Rodents driving cars
https://www.cnet.co...-loops-for-science/
[xaviergisz, Mar 22 2020]
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You definitely have potential for the SciFi Channel. Innocent wonderings like this by well meaning but misguided mad scientists is what leads to horrors like the Cyborg Landquarium of Dr Zamondo - wheeled pirhana chasing down poodles, sawfish on Segways slashing passersby, enormous oarfish riding 10 motorcyles at once and jumping over 10 more motorcycles - ah yes. For you, an enormous bun in the shape of a monster car-crushing whale shark with overinflated tires. |
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I think the attention span of most fish would make the vehicle incapable of winning the Darpa challenge. |
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oh dear, this looks interesting. may I just mark this space... |
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I like this idea, but unless you used a sole or a halibut, I think that the fish should have the same verticle freedom that they have in the ocean. Perhaps you could mount the fish bowl onto a Genie® mobile lift. |
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Maybe I could use little bonsai
dolphins... they have an attention span
and procreate for fun. We may see them
at the local Night Club. |
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you could just use the same technology used in video game movement capture- if any kid can afford it-then im sure someone can adapt it to recongnize a fish's movements |
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Interesting. The author posted this idea and anno, one other anno on another idea, the word "Hello" on his profile page, and then dropped out of sight. |
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Talk about passing like fish cars in the night - |
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if the tracker keeps track of fish movement, and the fish is in the bowl. wouldn't the car go in circles? |
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How did the slogan go?
"Women need men like a fish needs a ..."? |
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9 years later. It appears somebody took my idea and translated it into the real world. No word on the schooling factor. |
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Cool idea [zamondo]. I hope you receive royalties in the
form of large pots of gold(fish). |
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Always been a big fan of this concept, but watching
the video I'm wondering if the stupid fish has any
concept of surroundings outside the fish bowl. |
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Make the little bugger work for his meals to test it
out. Food is in the dining room. Drive your little car
to the fish food dispenser to prove you're worthy of
all this high tech we've put together to allow you to
drive anywhere you want. The first few times you
show it where to go of course, then see if it can
figure out the concept of driving to dinner itself. |
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Point is, now we have a fish car, but we're still no
closer to knowing whether a fish can drive or not. |
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One suggested improvement, get rid of the corners.
They seem to confuse it. Make it a nice cylinder with
minimum visual distractions. You could also have
water flowing over it in the direction it's swimming to
completely simulate the "swimming through the living
room" effect but first I'd see if it could figure out that
it's moving just by aiming itself in the direction it
wants to go. |
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Interesting. The author, who posted this idea and anno, one other anno on another idea, the word "Hello" on his profile page, and then dropped out of sight, returned and modified their profile page six days ago. |
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Talk about passing like fish cars in the night - Welcome back, [zamondo]. |
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The chip in the head is nice, but wetware remains a challenge still. I'd stick with cameras monitoring the behavior of the fish and some software to turn that into controlling motions. |
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How do we know that what we think of as a fish is
not, in fact, a small technologically advanced rodent
in a fish-shaped submarine? |
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By the absence of torpedo tubes, obviously. |
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Since fish live in the ocean, they probably have no concept of what "not-ocean" is. |
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Until the development of air pumps and barometers in the 17th century, humans had no concept of vacuum, and assumed that the atmosphere went "up" indefinitely. The highest points above sea level that humans could reach were still within the breathable region; even in the Himalayas, height was limited by factors other than simple altitude and the local partial pressure of oxygen. |
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Having never been out of it and survived, most fish (except species like mud-skippers) will not realize that there is anything else. Amphibians and reptiles are different. |
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