Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #04097



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Nigel Joyce" nigel.joyce@qr.com.au
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:00:04 +1000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: symet with head?


What about a switch to tell when the wheel/head mechanism turns past 90
degrees? the switch would reverse the direction of the motors. From
memory I think the original turtle did this. Wasn't that turtle bot made
out of lego parts???

Blue Skies
---Buzz---


> you'd have to put some kind of limit on how far the head/wheel could
> turn of course. Otherwise, if the head was looking at a light behind the
> bot and the solar roller fired, it'd roll right into the shadows...
>
> darrell
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/wundoba
>
>
>
> > Senior wrote:
> > >
> > > What about a solar roller with it's front wheels steered by a head? ;)
> >
> > --
> >


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