Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04060
To: dave@solarbotics.com
From: "Jason -" evenflow88@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:27:33 GMT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Flathead(as shown in solarbotics)
>From: Dave Hrynkiw
>To: "Jason -"
>CC: beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: Flathead(as shown in solarbotics)
>Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:47:32 -0600
>
>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).
>
hie
what does auxilliary inputs/outputs means?(in the head
mechanism)...and for the headbot concept that u mentioned what really mean
by that i mean a deeper understanding of the concept....
and in the readers digest 98 there is tildens article right?there is this
bot labeled head bot which at first i thought was a head mechanism but later
after browsing around the internet i found out the picture matched a five
motor walker picture in andrew miller webpage that is the photo6.jpg or gif
......dont u think this is rather contradictory(did i spell it right)
and what other stuff do u mean by the microcore powered head can fully turn
right/left/up/down....i thought a bicore would have done the same job too if
connected separately....
well just need someone to explain my rather rat nest minded with questions
and such...well thanks a million for all what you all will try to explain..i
appreciate it=)
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