Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03037
To: Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
From: "Ben Hitchcock" beh01@uow.edu.au
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 20:43:19 +0000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: LC circuits
Fantastic!
Just one thing, though, shouldn't there be a break in the wire between the
relay input and the relay output? It looks to me like all the inputs and
outputs are solidly connected together!
Ben
>Hello Alex,
>
>No, not stupid at all ! Here is a fine example of an electromagnetic Beam
>circuit. This Relay Core has a definite L 'ement" of retro about. The
>triangles are meant to Show the similarity with the MicroCore. Relays are of
>course natural Schmitt triggers. This low tech design could have been build
>a century ago! Who knows, if someone had invented it then perhaps today we
>would be driving walkers instead of cars.
>
>enjoy
>
> Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
> tel: (604)590-7493
> fax: (604)590-3411
>
> <>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: afarley@sas.upenn.edu [SMTP:afarley@sas.upenn.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:49 AM
>> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>> Subject: LC circuits
>>
>> This may seem like a stupid question (it may just be so obvious
>> that it does not immediately occur to me why not), but why aren't LC
>> (inductor-capacitor) circuits used in any of the higher level circuits?
>> Can't LC's be used for central pattern generation? Or is there a reason
>> why inductors do not mesh well with the desired outputs? Are the outputs
>> too regular (if they are why not have some type of LRC circuit)?
>> Just wondering.
>> Alex Farley
>
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