Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00843
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com, "'Richard Piotter'" richfile@rconnect.com
From: "van Zoelen, Bram SSI-TSEA-352" Bram.A.A.vanZoelen@is.shell.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:27:52 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Co-op reincarnation
A search on "cricket the robot" gave me this
http://home.earthlink.net/~henryarnold/
I beleive that's what you where asking for.
BTW. this is a very nice site.
Bram
> ----------
> From: Richard Piotter[SMTP:richfile@rconnect.com]
> Reply To: Richard Piotter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 3:21 AM
> To: beam
> Subject: Re: Co-op reincarnation
>
> Where can one find this cricket that is so nicely mentioned here? My
> question is
> how many motors per leg. If it's like the hexapod II kit from lynxmotion,
> than I
> could het the thing and have some spare electronics. Just asking.
>
> George Rix wrote:
> >
> > >> So, any more comments?
> > > Yep. I don't know if you've seen the commercial kit bot online called
> the
> > > Cricket or not. It's a small 6 legged bot that can be controlled by a
> sanyo TV
> > > remote or run autonomously. The kit is outrageous, about 400.00, but
> the
> > > schematics and code for the CPU is there for the asking. I suspect a
> > > combination of those circuits, the Cybug platform, and a nice hexapod
> queen
> > > from Lynxmotion would almost fall together to create this ecosystem we
> are
> > > discussing. True, you are talking about 1000.00 minimum (and that's
> doing a
> > > lot of freeforming and cost cutting), but I'm not sure you can get the
> > > functionality you are talking about from a 5.00 bot. Besides, 1000.00
> isn't
> > > that much considering the potential for ecstatic levels of fun. Also,
> one more
> > > thing, howsabout small stingers on your wasps? Not Rodney King tazers
> or
> > > anything, just a small jolt like a joy buzzer set off by a proximity
> detector.
> > > Hive defense-no mess, or cruelty. I live in the southern US, and the
> idea puts
> > > me in mind of fire ants. If you disturb them they swarm out of the
> mound and
> > > start stinging in mass. Imagine your queen or hive giving an attack
> signal.
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Jim
> > Well, I haven't heard a thing about it, but I'd check it out if you'd
> tell
> > me where to look for it. And no, I'm talking much, MUCH less than $1000.
> A
> > tenth of that at the MOST! But I can do it, because I have an absolutely
> > FANTASTIC source for parts, practically free, and they even have PICs
> and
> > uCPUs and such. HEY! I got an idea! About those stingers...
> > ...maybe we could put in some voltage detector that would shut off the
> wasp
> > if it got "stung" leaving it as chaff to be the prize of whoever wins
> the
> > fight. But no cybugs unless I'm assembling the circuit myself (no kits)
> and
> > NO LYNXMOTION! Their prices are WAY too high for me.
> > And trust me, I can get a fair bit out of five bucks =)
> > I've built a walker that is phototropic with that much, most of the
> > mechanics salvaged, electronic parts bought from Sayal Electronics.
> Wicked
> > prices, and they deliver!
> > I'm gonna make the drones as BEAMish as I can, even down to the
> circuits.
> > I'm working on those circuits right now. Anyhow, gotta go,
> > Signing off,
> > Rob Rix
> > 'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's
> law
>
> --
>
>
> Richard Piotter
> richfile@rconnect.com
>
> The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
> http://members.xoom.com/richfiles
>
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