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Message #05571
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 01:21:17 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: electric shock disposable camera.
Wow!!! I'm impressed by the list!!! No flames! It's a nice change. I'm glad!
I was wrong. there are uses for the cap!!! Mag bots are a possibility,
since they use smaller caps. I completely forgot about those. Also, yes,
the cap may be ABLE to hold 330 volts, but that doesn't mean it has to
be CHARGED to 330 volts. If you gave it... say 12 volts, it'd charge
real close to 12 volts. you could use a smaller cap of course, but it'd
hold plenty of power with it's size. you could use any voltage UP TO
330, so yeah, I think it could be used. A nice Magbot with very powerful
movements would be a nice change from the little dinky twitching magbots
(no offense! I've seen excelent ones). If you got a higher voltage
panel, and made a circuit to handle it, then it might be able to do some
interesting stuff! good luck!
> Bens Web Page wrote:
>
> Today i dismantled a disposable camera and electricuted myself about
> five times try to remove the flash. I kept on getting shocked from
> touching some part of the camera. I don't know what is was but when i
> finaly disconected all the wires I found something that looked liked a
> huge ****** of a cap. It said on the side of the cap 330 volts and 160
> uf. Does anyone think that this could be used to make a very fast
> photovore. I am only very new to beam and don't understand very much.
> I would be very appreciative if you people could reply to this message
> with some ideas on how I could use this one cap to make a photovore
> solarroler or any other type of simple beam robot. No walkers though
> please.
--
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
http://richfiles.calc.org
For the BEAM Robotics list:
BEAM Robotics Tek FAQ
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5572 Mon, 09 Aug 1999 01:40:08 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: electric shock disposable camera. beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Richard Piotter A mag bot is generaly any type of robot that employs the use of an
electro magnet and a Solar engine. I havn't built any myself, but common
magbots are "animated" insects such as a butterfly with flapping wings
(driven by the electromagnet). some have been made that actualy move or
hop along. There is plenty of things you can do, as long as you can
imagine them.
--
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
http://richfiles.calc.org
For the BEAM Robotics list:
BEAM Robotics Tek FAQ
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/bushbo/beam/FAQ.html
5573 Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:52:24 +0200 [alt-beam] Namiki 1701 pager motors arno.jansen@superconsult.nl
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Okay, new to BEAM as I am, I am starting to build a photopopper. But, I
can't (and don't want to ) get the Solarbotics-kit. So I ordered the parts,
and I will make it myself (with a little help of course). There's one
problem: The electromotors. The Solarbotics Photopopper uses Namiki 1701's,
which are hard to get here in Holland. So if anyone knows where to get them
here in Holland, or what motors I could use as replacement. Please let me
know. If anyone could give me specs of the Namiki 1701's, would be great, so
I can find another electromotor.
Thanks,
Arno Jansen
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