Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04062
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:48:50 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: symet with head?
The direction that a symet leans at determines it's direction of travel. Dave's
solarengine manual illustrates this the best.
http://www.solarbotics.com/Kit_1.pdf
Chiu
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)
>
> Anyhoo, I just thought I'd mention it since nobody else brought it up,
> and I know some of you like to make those symets.. :)
>
> keep building!
>
> Darrell
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/wundoba
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