Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03909
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:37:21 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: SAL ..... & Spyder
OHHHHHHHHH It's so beautiful!!!! Unfortunately, as my web page says, ATI
has delayed my video card for so long. With luck, I might get it in 1-2
weeks, IF they don't delay the shipment again. Blue PCBs realy look
nice. It's going to be a bit tall, and I think I'm going to widen the
base again to make some extra clearance for the PCB (so it's not
ABSURDLY high :)
When I get that video card, I'm going on a photo spree!!!
Mwahahahahahahaha!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! (:
In addition to Spyder, I'll have new pics of all my bots. Bronco is got
to be the best so far, gait wise! WOW!!! It uses a 6 Nv branched bicore
to create out of phase outputs. Seems to work great!!! If you watch it
from directly above or to the side, it appears it is constantly in
forward motion!!! It's so cool! It takes 15 seconds to walk 3 feet, so I
guess a foot every 5 seconds. On a low battery too (it bounces if you
put a new battery in, hence the name Bronco! Hehe! :)
jester96beam@iname.com wrote:
>
> You're right! It does look a LOT like a salamander.
>
> So can we expect any more pictures of your spyder soon? I was VERY impressed with the first wave of photos. It's now up there with my favourite robots which also include Mark T's spyder, and Ian's Stryder Junior. Ian didn't you have photos of it somewhere on your page? I can't find anything about it.
>
> Chris
>
> > One last note, Spyder is going to be blue! All the PCBs are made of BLUE
> > material! Hehe! It is soo cool looking. The Nv boards are attached in a
> > "T" arrangement and those are mounted on a triange frame sitting on a
> > pair of arc shaped wires that mount on to the large H-Bridge board. I am
> > also including a jumper block to configure the signals to the motors,
> > and will some day mount it on a head (or mount a head on it). The head
> > will opperate a set of MUX's which will rotate the signals to the legs
> > (so it would be able to walk in 3-4 directions depending on how far the
> > head is turned and what position it is facing.
> >
> > In the further future, I may have it stop, look around, and then walk.
>
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Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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