Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04456
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:17:26 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Turning a walker
In a message dated 6/11/99 9:48:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, beh01@uow.edu.au
writes:
> Deceptively simple, this one! You just treat the walker like you would
> treat a wheeled 'bot - to walk forward, you just run both motors forward.
> To reverse, you run both in reverse. To turn, you make one run, while the
> other either stops or goes in reverse.
Well, yes it is simple. It's really a clock work cycle. I'm not sure I'd call
it a walker, but in the BEAM tradition of a walker, it definitely qualifies.
Jim
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