Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #05337



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: SG Sparkyg@seark.net
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:39:55 -0400
Subject: a few trivial questions (warning: newbie stuff)



> 1.
> i was talkin to a friend, 'splaining the concept of beam to him , and we
> came up with a curious question,... anyone know how long the longest
solar
> beam bot has been left running? I've read somewhere that some have ran
for
> years, but just was wundering in some of the survival experiments if
> longetivity was factor, and which bot holds the record?
>
> 2.
> have a pic of Tildon and one of his bots i stumbled across while diggin
> thru some LANL newsletter archives. i wanna ask questions about it, but
its
> about 29K so i can't post it here. if anyone wants to see it and discuss
> lemme know.
>
> 3.
> just fer fun: anyone ever use a piezo buzzer for sound effects? i was
> thinkin of maybe a few chirps a second when lotus go into reverse. or
is
> this really really tacky and best forgotten?
>
> 4.
> Also... (last question) i recycled an old H-bridge assembly, but have
> since realized that resitors in front motor's H-bridge are 47k, and rear's
> are now 100K.. no prob so far but is this a NO NO?
>
> THANX!
> -SPARKY
>


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