Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04050
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 10:25:34 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: symet with head?
Darrell Johnson wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just took another look at the PBS video that with the Mark Tilden
> appearance.. watch the section where Stryder walks over the smalller
> bot... To me it (the smaller bot) seems as if it's a symet with an
> attached light seeking head.. At the beginning of the scene you can see
> the head rapidly swinging back and forth, then it stops and the symet
> part kicks.. I think the direction it moves is based on the center of
> balance when the head stops...
>
> Has anyone ever experimented with this type of thing? (besides Mark) It
> seems like a very unusual way to steer a bot around.. (probably not
> really all that effective)
Sure it is!
I've posted in the past on mounting a head on a Symet, making it
phototrpoic.
This works best on spring suspended Symets in my experiance, because its
easy
to control their direction of movement by shifting the center of gravity.
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