Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04157
To: "'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com'" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "van Zoelen, Bram SSI-TSEA-352" Bram.A.A.vanZoelen@is.shell.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:53:23 +0200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Slot car races (new idea?)
Hehehe [sheeplike grinning here]
Thanks fellow beamer.
All the time i was wondering what slot cars are and why there is such a fuss
about it. Now, the 4 curves and straight tracks mentioned below put me also
right in track.
Well back to old memories again. Slot cars, who ever thought.....
bram
> ----------
> From: Don Papp[SMTP:donp@cronus.oanet.com]
> Reply To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 6:25 PM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Slot car races (new idea?)
>
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Richard Piotter wrote:
>
> > I got 4 curves and 2 straight slot car track sections. I'm going to try
> > to build a little slot car track. Should be fun, except I don't have any
> > slot cars left! (:
> >
> > I'll have to find some first.
>
> A possible variation (which I would try if I had a slot racer
> track and cars) is to line photodiodes(less visually obtrusive) or
> solarcells on the track, and use the existing metal traces to send the
> poweer to the cars when the SE fires. The SE and cap(s) on the track
> itself would mean only the motor is in the car - making it lighter and
> able to run longer.
>
>
> | Donald Papp, T.T., MCP
> | Support Analyst
> | OA Internet Inc.
> | don@oa.net
>
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