Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03230
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:00:10 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Motors
WOW!!! That is an impressive design. Does the front and back work like
one of those one way valves? Like a thin flap of silicone that only
opens a certain way as to force it to suck water from the front, and
expell it from the back? If the sides were simply a thing layer of
silicone holding it together, and the valves were on front and back,
then you'd get a bit of forward motion fron extending the magnet too,
from watter being drawn in from the front!
Great image too!!!
Nicholas Smith wrote:
>
> >> 4. A spinning propeller does not realy simulate the swimming action of a
> >>creature. I like to build all of my aqua bots with either water lungs
> (jelly
> >> fish) or fins (fish).
>
> >How do I go about making a Water Lung?
>
> Take a look at this. The whole body is made out of a clear flexable silicon
> jelly. Its about the size of a tea cup saurcer. Kind of the same shape as a
> manta ray with a lung in the middle that can open and close due to an
> electromagnet in the top that either repels or attracts the "Belly"
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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