Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02430
To: Bumper314@aol.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:50:38 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Shape Memory Alloy (Trivia???)
Tilden's Nitewalker SMA crawler is detailed in "Stiquito:Advanced Experiments".
There was rumors of more efficient SMA compounds being developed by NASA in the
comp.robotics.misc newsgroup a while back...we'll see.
Chiu
Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/17/99 8:41:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> zulu35@singnet.com.sg writes:
>
> > but doesn't SMAs take up a lot of current... hmm... if theres any version
> > that doesn't do so... heh heh mind recommending it to me? i guess i'll
> > really need them... :)
>
> Mark Tilden did some work with this. He ran a few inches of SMA off of a SE,
> but the cap size was around 1F just to get it to contract slowly and release
> slowly. I guess he had planes for a whole tiny solar walker with this but i
> dont know what happened. Has anyone else worked with this stuff and hooked it
> up to a solar engine?
>
> STeve
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