Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #02553



To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "Jaroslav 'Lord Slayer' Pelan" pelanj@feld.cvut.cz
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:27:45 MET-1MEST
Subject: [alt-beam] Stiquito TM


Hello,
i did some browsing and I found an interresting book called
'Stiquito(tm): Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive
Robot' (check out http://stiquito.com).I think that Mr Tilden has his
own chapter in this book. The book contains a kit too. (although it's
mostly just the mechanic parts.) I think it's cool, but i don't have
spare 45 U$ (i'll rather get some solarcells first). A muscle-wire
robot - hmmm, seems interresting. I've read, that something like
that was used in Pathfinder. People, are there some resources on
how to make a bot like that? There was a discussion on SMAs
here. Would'n it be nice to have a bot without e-motors? Have
someone tried to attach the ucore to a thing like that? Is it able to
walk backwards ( i think it isn't -or it's not that difficult as it seems
to me)?

Well, thats enough for now.
JP

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