Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03026
To: BEAM List beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 01:25:34 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] First working soldered creation!
Yes! I made a bicore head and it works! Yes! Yes! Yes! He heh he heh!
IT WORKS! IT'S ALIVE!
Anyhow, it's working fine, except for one small point:
The blasted thing turns too far!
I'm using two photodiodes and two resistors (1.8 Meg) in the following
format:
_|>_
_/\/\_| |_/\/\_
|_<|_ |
It is EXTREMELY sensitive, but it goes too far when it turns. What size of
resistor do you think would fix this? I guessed at 500K, but I wanted your
opinions on it as well. It turns around twice before turning in the opposite
direction, and my motor is not a gear motor (I can't get one, at all).
Any suggestions?
Signing off,
Rob Rix
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