Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01316
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 01:04:55 +1300
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Improved SunEater WAS: Advanced?
> Make it smaller, and the
> `pop' causes insufficient motion. That saddles you with a rather
> large ordinary electrolytic cap - you can't use a physically smaller
> SuperCap, because it has too much capacitance.
That seems to be a really good solution. (I've been grappling with the
same problem, but in the more orthodox manner - finding ways to use very
low voltage electrolytics with tiny motors and very light bots, so as to
give sufficient step but remain small. I think I've got it worked out
well, but it obviously limits bot design).
Cool circuit. Yet another to add to my Way-Too-Long list of things to
try.
Why is everyone being so much more creative than usual these days?
I think we need another eco-system or on-board processor debate or flame
war or something. I can't keep up with all this :-)
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