Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03815
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: James Taylor edgar_the_hate_bug1@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Heads
The Herbie circuit is a ton of fun. I have 2 or 3 of
them running around the Jurrasic park. I found that a
SE interfaces well with them, making a photovore with
an extremly low parts count. The best frame would
probably be to solder pager motors to the leads of a
capacitor. That or find an old Tyco slot car and
convert it (another fun thing to do.
--- Keagan Schpfer wrote:
> HI.
>
> I have a few questions about heads.
>
> 1) do you have to use gear motors. could you just
> use normal motors.
>
> 2) is it possible to use CDS cells instead of
> photodiodes if you put them
> parallel with a regular diode? or, do you even need
> the diode.
>
> 3) is there such a thing as a Z bridge head? i know
> that dave from
> solarbotics made a head of some sort of a bridge,
> but i can't remember the
> name. does any one have the circut for this
> bridge???
>
> 4) is the best power source batteries? how effective
> are solar powered
> heads?
>
> oh yeah, i am building a herbie, and i was wondering
> what kind of a
> body/frame i should use.
>
> best regards,
> keagan schopfer
>
>
>
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