Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02340
To: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com, beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:49:36 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: snake
At 07:15 PM 4/8/99 , Richard Piotter wrote:
>I know the feeling! I havn't found anything either. The gears use don
>Tilden's snake are BEAUTIFUL!!! I wish I knew where he got them! I'm
>using BG Micro Gear motors on mine, but I havn't even started any work,
>cause I KNOW I'll need metal gears for this. The BG Micro motors would
>tear through plastic gear like they were nothing.
I hate to tell stories like this, but it goes down to one of the rules of
BEAM Robotics: If you find something cool, BUY THEM ALL!
Mark found the gears at a local surplus dealer. He had got them in one of
those assortment drawer sets as part of a pallet most surplus gets sold in.
Being Mark, he looked at the drawers and said "How much for them all?"
$100 bucks later he was walking to his car with easily 1000 brass and steel
gears of all sizes and shapes.... I hate it when he does that!
Regards,
Dave
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"Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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