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Message #03858



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Les Davis upnrunin@home.com
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:16:35 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: SE-lot car races


Again, One of my students has built a linear drive model for the Skills Canada
competition. The circular track has a 49 or so electro magnets embedded in it, he
pulses 6 or 7 of the magnets in sequence causing a steel ball to excellerate around
the track. Let me know if you are interested in his plans and what not, I'll put you
in touch with him by e-mail.

Les Davis

Richard Piotter wrote:

> If I see one, I'm buying it and BEAMifying the slot cars and setting it
> up by my window! I personaly would prefer fairly equalized cars on their
> own tracks and racing them. Hehe! :)
>
> Off subject, I was thinking of using magnets mounted under roads on my
> model railroad and place cars with attracting magnets in the front and
> back. Unfortunately, I had no clue how to run it. Of course you can't
> REALy place a solar panel on it, but maybe using electromagnets.
> Unfortunately that would get expensive. My cars are about an inch long
> and 1/4 inch tall, so motorizing them is not an option. Anyway, I just
> thought of that. Havn't worked on it for a while though. No cash (rather
> it's all to school and robots! Hehe! :)
>
> I wish I had some single pin sockets to solder to my Nv net board for
> Spyder. I could buy them, but I don't want to wait (waiting is the
> hardest part :) so maybe I'll just use a block header socket. Or maybe
> I'll buy the 20 pin inline socket anyway, though it has terminals like
> an IC socket. How are those at holding a wire plugged in (single male
> header or bus wire)?
>
> Dave Hrynkiw wrote:
> >
> > At 08:33 PM 5/27/1999 , Richard Piotter wrote:
> > >Speaking of slot cars, has anyone even made a solar engine slot car
> > >race. Actualy build SEs into the slot cars, and place them on a track.
> > >
> > >"Place your bets now!" Hehe! (:
> > >
> > >I want to see THAT!!!
> >
> > Sure, about 3 years ago at one of the BEAM build-fests we had here in
> > Calgary. Does anybody have a scan of that Equinox article that had an
> > fish-eye, ground-up pic of MarkT & ScottyDogma playing with the slot-car track?
> >
> > It was a blast. This was shortly after the initial variants of the Miller
> > 1381 were shared with the rest of us. We invaded a local toy shop and
> > bought out his whole supply of slot-cars, about 16 in all. I think 9 of
> > them got turned into various types of SE-powered slot-car solarollers,
> > which we put on a big outdoor slot-car track. The speedier (longer-running)
> > cars took one lane, and the slower (short-burst) cars took another. It was
> > great fun to watch them whizzing around!
> >
> > This event was one of the first inspirations for the SolarSpeeder kit. As a
> > matter of fact, my slot-car racer uses exactly the same components as in
> > the SS kit. I'll have to tear it down and take some close-ups for the
> > website this summer when I have my summer-job help here...
> >
> > -Dave
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > "Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
> > that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
> > 2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
> > http://www.solarbotics.com
>
> --
>
> Richard Piotter
> richfile@rconnect.com
>
> The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
> http://richfiles.calc.org
>
> For the BEAM Robotics list:
> BEAM Robotics Tek FAQ
> http://people.ne.mediaone.net/bushbo/beam/FAQ.html


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