Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00773
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:42:39 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] RoboArm
Well, I recently made a real work of art out of LEGO technics. It's a
Robotic Arm that uses motor power and pneumatics (I only have one motor, yo=
u
see, whereas I have four large pneumatic pistons). The thing is perfectly
balanced from front to back, you can move it into any position freely, and
it's so well balanced it won't budge on its own, and is all black and yello=
w
too, making it the coolest thing I've done with my technics hands down.
But anyhow, I have a question regarding it.
Two, actually.
Firstly, would it make any sense to (if I had motor power controlling the
entire thing) use a BEAM circuit to make it both solar and to drive it, or
would I be better to use some other drive system. Say, hypothetically, I
wanted it to reach towards a bright light source and try and grab at it.
Could I use BEAM for that, would it be the best (or cheapest or coolest or
whatever) option (including, say, a CPU, or various other
non-BEAM-philosophy-and-tech-conforming circuits), would it be possible at
all, or would I be stupid for thinking of this?
Secondly, could I then put it on some sort of a mobile device=8BBEAM or
otherwise=8Band have it interact with the platform so it could control its
motion and vice-versa?
Or am I stupid for even thinking about BEAM and LEGO in the same second?
Anyhow, please respond,
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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