[python] Re: positive trail scetches

Hello Pythonauts!

Sorry, I kind of just dropped off of the face of the python-earth for awhile... Life and all that! I'm still not quite ready to catch up on all of the python mailing list archives, but I noticed there were some virtual axis posts back in October, so I thought that I should mention that I'm still alive!

My "Vython" remains as it has been for quite some time -- rather poorly aligned, and no seat! I have a carbon fiber seat, which I purchased used with a small crack (from the Hostel Shoppe), and I also have a vacuum pump, which I was planning to use to repair the seat (later to make some carbon fiber recumbents), but I need to buy the rest of the supplies -- fiber, epoxy, matting, hose, etc.

I'm still hopeful that I'll get around to it someday... Besides just being really busy and caught up with other things, I think I was a little discouraged by Laurent's conclusion that it wasn't viable, as well as by the discovery that someone had come to the same conclusion in the summer of 1978 (roughly 9 months before I was born!).

Never the less, I'd still like to try it myself! I'd also like to try another approach, such as using a curved rail/track as the pivot -- I imagine that it could be made reasonable strong and light with the proper engineering (which would of course be far beyond my formal training, but I'm an optimistic fellow).

On a different note: I haven't been following the mailing list closely for awhile, but on the few occasions when I've sat down and read through a bunch of older postings, I've been inspired by all of the new designs that have been created -- for example, I think that Dirk's Baby Python is very cool! Keep up the good work everyone!

Michael
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