Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05667
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:37:51 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: LEM videos now on-line.
It's probably the timing too though. How many people workerd on designs
between classes at school, and built on weekends or afternoons, while
sitting indors, bored as heck. Summer is here and most people are
probably working or having fun. Summer seems like it should be realy
busy, but it never seems to be... I think it might just be the timing.
Personaly, I wanted to enter, but I havn't ordered parts in the longest
time!!! Sucks! also, is there a good 245 based reverser circuit??? If
so, then maybe I can build hexapod before the robotics meeting next
Thursday at St. Paul MN.
Oh, and is $150 a good deal for a color mini camera and a video
transmitter and receiver? I'm thinking of using it for Quadrapod, but
then again, i don't plan on finishing it anytime soon. Should I save my
money for a camera when I build the bot, or is this deal one of those
ones you don't want to dare to pass up?
Deadline is Aug 12... TODAY!!!
http://www.x10.com/home/offer.cgi?!ZDSL4,../1index1043.htm
Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> Ian Bernstein wrote:
>
>
>
> > >Now people are talking about the *next* contest already.. What's up with
> > >that?!?!
> > I think it's good to throw around ideas. Personally I didn't really like
> > the theme "Most Innovative Form of Motion" It's a really tricky thing
> > because over the years a LOT of things have been done so it's hard to
> > come up with anything new. Also having to make a video and send it off
> > (if you don't have a digital camera with video) will discourage a lot of
> > people???
>
> Of all the BEAM robots I've ever seen, very very few used an innovative form
> of
> motion. I dont agree that many different things have been tried (with BEAM
> designs).
>
> I actually had 3 totally different designs, and spent more than 2 weeks just
> trying to
> decide which to complete and submit for the contest. (Almost everyone I
> asked thought
> that I sould have submitted a design called 'Snake Spring Drive' rather than
> LEM!)
>
> Not having a digital camera with video is not a problem at all. I dont have
> one. Chiu offered to digitize video from standard VHS tapes. How much
> easier
> could it be?
>
> With so few contestants, I worry that there wont be any future contests.
--
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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5668 Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:13:07 UZT [alt-beam] Message to Chiu! Did you get my bot? beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "enni fdenio" Sorry guy's to use the list like this but I've been trying to get ahold of
Chiu for awhile now and my Computer access has been severly limited. Anyway,
Chiu, did you get my contest entry? I sent it to you in the mail awhile ago.
Hope you received it. If so, I'll post text about it, but if you could just
drop a little tag on your web site or e-mail me (although I might not get
that e-mail) just to let me know if you recieved it or not. Thanks!
Dennison
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5669 Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:41:23 EDT [alt-beam] pager motors under $2.50 each beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Tedodo@aol.com http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-
DCM-131.html?L+scstore+slbr1740+936253999
5670 Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:59:04 -0700 (PDT) [alt-beam] Re: pager motors under $2.50 each beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BotDoc
I went over there and picked some up a while, unless
you want them with the weight on you might want to
look somewhere else, they are pretty much impossible
to get off with 2 people, a hammer, some pliers and
other futile efforts... they aren't as easy to remove
as others are. For those of you that buy them be
warned!
--- Tedodo@aol.com wrote:
>
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-
> DCM-131.html?L+scstore+slbr1740+936253999
>
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