Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04056
To: "Jason -" evenflow88@hotmail.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:47:32 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Flathead(as shown in solarbotics)
At 01:13 AM 5/31/1999 , Jason - wrote:
> I might be wrong but i notice a most of mark T head mechanism uses a
> standard HX1.0 board which consist of a microcore .....why did he uses
> this instead of our most commonly known bicore which most of us uses for
> a head mechanism...
I think it was because when he came up with a Headbot concept, he was more
used to using the microcore than the Bicore. Also, it would guarantee that
the headbot would go through full left/up/right/down iterations instead of
separate up/down vs left/right behaviors. Could be an advantage? I dunno...
>know whats the measurement of the standard DX1.0 and HX1.0 hextile board
>which mark uses in bigfoot and the Bc1 boards..i printed out a few from
>the website but later i found that i need to resize them into the size of
>5.5cm by 6.3 cm which i thought is quite small.....anyone?
2.5" vertex to vertex (max distance); 2.19" flat to flat.
>p/s:dave what are those pummers for and those long cylindrical stuff(i
>hope i spelled it right..
They are aesthetic devices - simple BLFNARs (pronounced "BLIFNAR" - blinky
lights for no apparent reason).
-Dave
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"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_".
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