Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00683
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: davidperry@mail.geocities.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 18:18:01 +0000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: bicore
urrr, whatever, drugs are bad, n'kay? and marijuanas bad, n'kay, drugs
are bad
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:27:43 -0600
> From: Richard Piotter
> To: beam
> Subject: Re: bicore
> Reply-to: Richard Piotter
> Have you built a microcore? Try a Microcore bicore using the 74HC14. See if you
> can't get that working (requires external motor driver). Otherwise, keep
> practicing. I myself need to order a bunch of chips for expirimentation, and the
> 20-30 or so for Quadrapod. Hehe! Big BEAM bot!
>
> lpiriment with the values of the resistors and capacitors, and make sure the
> photodiodes realy are photodiodes. I've mistakenly used IR LEDs in some older
> projects! Oops! Same deal with phototransistors. I'm not sure how they would
> react. See if your chip is a 74HCT240. I think that's right. Mine isn't, and
> doesn't quite work, and I need to buy plenty parts. (:
>
> Man, I can't sleep either! It's the government man! Expirimentation! Something
> at LANL, and headed by Area 51 (which doesn't officialy exist, whether you see
> it or not)! Wait, It's probably cause I am waiting for my new G3 to arrive. Why
> the hell does the mind torture you when you know something good's going to
> happen! Going on a trip, vacation, field trip, getting something new, came up
> with cool idea, make a new friend, etc, etc, etc!!! You can NEVER sleep! And
> then, after you get it, you get NO sleep as compared to just a little, cause
> you're either up all night with the new toy, or you're so pumped full of
> adrenaline you couldn't sit still for 10 seconds for a million bucks! AHhhh!
> It's a conspiricy. The brain is out to take total control of the body through
> tourtu... Wait, it has control of the body! Dang it! It won!!!!! My body's all
> mad now! It's hoing to give my brain a headach now and ma it feel tired. This
> sucks. I'm right in the missle of it all!
> Need sleep... Not normal... I... I'm not this... sarcastic... under normal...
> conditions! Hehe! (:
>
>
> davidperry@mail.geocities.com wrote:
> >
> > now let me get this straight first, on a bicore to make it a head you
> > simply replace the resistor with two photdiodes in parallell in
> > opposite polarity, right. Now are there any substitutes for that
> > something something 240. I can't get the direct drive one or the one
> > that needs a motor driver, are there any others that can be used
> > preferably direct drive. Sorry i'm trying to work out so many beam
> > concepts at once, i can't sleep at night because of this. Maybe thats
> > why nothing works :-)
>
>
> Richard Piotter
> richfile@rconnect.com
>
> The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
> http://members.xoom.com/richfiles
>
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