Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00798
To: Noam Rudnick rudnick1@cwix.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:37:41 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: RoboArm
Thanx! I'll be sure to check that out! Hey, maybe if I combine that with my
hive and drone idea, I can have the hive collect drones bit by bit!
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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>From: Noam Rudnick
>To: George Rix , beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: RoboArm
>Date: Mon, Feb 22, 1999, 5:28 PM
>
> I have a webpage on something like this. Note: It was made in the PRE-BEAM
> era of my life =). Hope this helps:
>
> www.eliwhitney.org/webplus/noam_rudnick/index.html
>
> Good Luck,
> Noam
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George Rix
> To:
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 10:42 AM
> Subject: 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, you
> 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 yellow
> 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
> otherwise
> 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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