Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04590
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:45:44 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Tilden on TV...
At 09:07 AM 6/17/1999 , John A. deVries II wrote:
>At 10:48 PM 6/16/99 , Dorsey2001@aol.com wrote:
>On the other hand, I wasn't impressed with how the robot walked.
>Furthermore, it was tethered -- given the way it walked, I'm not sure if it
>would have done very well with the added weight of some sort of power system.
It was only tethered in the sequence when he finished it on the table.
There are two other shots of it walking autonomously, using a 3733
solarcell and a pair of (what I believe to be) 0.33F caps for power.
-Dave
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"Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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