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Old 03-28-2016, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
...One idea was to make the launching of a model rocket more involving. This lead to the idea of having a speaking/talking launch controller. A synthesized voice would sound a countdown and upon reaching zero the rocket would launch...
I second George's suggestion--a YouTube demo video of your Laser Launch Controller would be very interesting! Also, speaking of talking launch controllers (no pun intended):

One that would enable the owner to record his or her own countdown (or maybe audio of Jack King counting down a Gemini or Apollo launch) would be interesting. It could also be used to record countdowns in other languages, which would be of interest, including to teachers. For example, a launch of a scale Kappa-7 model could be counted down using audio recorded from a Japanese sounding rocket firing in a YouTube video..."Ju, ku, hachi, nana, roku, go, yan, san, ni, ichi, zero!" (Also, MPC's Vostok kit contained a countdown card that gave the 5-second countdown in Russian, phonetically written [see: http://www.oldrocketplans.com/mpc/m...0/mpc3-0700.pdf ].)
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