Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05604
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Ripter01@aol.com [mailto:Ripter01@aol.com]
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:51:43 -0400
Subject: Re: Candle bots
In a message dated 8/9/99 8:25:35 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
rigter@cafe.net writes:
> If you use the candle for muscle wire (or steam power for that matter)
maybe
> but the radiant energy is to low for a solar cell to use. Plus bringing a
> lit
> candle to some dark part of the room (under the sofa maybe) will light
up
> the
> room alright and probably the rest of the house too.
>
I wasn't thinking of useing a solar cell for it, I was thinking about a
Thermoelectric Generator of some sort that uses the heat of the candle to
create power, maybe with some infered type powercreaters as well to use both
heat and light from the candle. And you would have to make sure it don't go
under the sofa :)
-Ripter
5605 Mon, 09 Aug 1999 20:58:02 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: Candle bots beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Sean Rigter Any sign of a candle powered "Nitinol-muscle wire engine" using a set of spokes
rotating through the flame or some such mechnism. Maybe some people didn't
realize that "muscle wire" runs on heat and can use resistive heating or any
external source of heat.
wilf
"Simpson, Bob" wrote:
> You could use the candle or oil lamp to run a Stirling engine, using it to
> motivate your robot and generate some electricity for your circuit. Go to
> http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/5465/
for some COOL little
> examples of purely mechanical ingenuity. They're almost as proud of their
> engines as we are of our bots. I'd love to see a combination of BEAM and
> Stirling cycle engine.
>
> -Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ripter01@aol.com [mailto:Ripter01@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:31 PM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Candle bots
>
> In a message dated 8/9/99 8:25:35 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> rigter@cafe.net writes:
>
> > If you use the candle for muscle wire (or steam power for that matter)
> maybe
> > but the radiant energy is to low for a solar cell to use. Plus bringing a
>
> > lit
> > candle to some dark part of the room (under the sofa maybe) will light
> up
> > the
> > room alright and probably the rest of the house too.
> >
> I wasn't thinking of useing a solar cell for it, I was thinking about a
> Thermoelectric Generator of some sort that uses the heat of the candle to
> create power, maybe with some infered type powercreaters as well to use both
>
> heat and light from the candle. And you would have to make sure it don't go
>
> under the sofa :)
> -Ripter
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