Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #05748



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:52:12 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Contest entry (the bounty bot)


WOW!!! I just thought of an amazing new walking gait for Spyder. A side
step was my old idea, but it'd be very easy to do a diagonal step too!
This design may not rotate well, but it should definitely have an
interesting number of straight line directions!

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Straight line walking gaits are in a zig zag fashion. it stept diagonaly
left, then diagonaly right, and then left again, right, etc. It can walk
in straight lines like this.


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The straight line walk is actualy a short diagonal walk in either
direction. I don't know why I didn't think of the diagonal walk earlier!!!

Richard Piotter wrote:
>
> Heck, I'd have entered my diagonaly walking Spyder, except it's not
> done. What (was?) the contest deadline?
>
> I say the next contest should give the walker people a nice chance at
> some prizes! (:
>
> BotDoc wrote:
> >
> > Ummmm I made a bot that tracks a line can I enter it
> > too? I just want to state my objections to Ians
> > entry. How in the hell is a bicore rolling bot an
> > inovative form of motion? What does putting a bit of
> > cloth on it to make it a "quicker picker upper" really
> > have anything to do with inovative form of motion?
> > Does it make a light show from static electricity or
> > anything? No it just rolls around like anything else
> > using a bicore and wheels. It is just a cheap way for
> > Ian to try and get a prize and not contributing
> > anything to the different types of motion.
> >
> > --- Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:
> > > Nice bot Ian. Although it has absolutely nothing to
> > > do with the contest goals,
> > > I'll accept it as a legitimate entry. ;)
> > >
> > > How is LANL going?
> > >
> > > Chiu
> > >
> > > Ian Bernstein wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Check out my contest entry at....
> > > > http://beam-online.com/chiucontest899/
> > > >
> > > > and tell me what you think. It's the first
> > > "useful" robot in my
> > > > collection. What it does is goes around my room at
> > > night and cleans the
> > > > floor!
> > > >
> > > > Laterz
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > *-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-*
> > > > Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The
> > > Master Builder
> > > >
> > > > E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
> > > > BEAM Online - http://www.beam-online.com
> > > > Quote - "Those parts of the system that you
> > > can hit with a hammer
> > > >
> > > > are called hardware; those program
> > > instructions that you
> > > > can
> > > > only curse at are called software."
> > > > - Levitating Trains and
> > > Kamikaze Genes
> > > > Technological
> > > > Literacy for the 1990's
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chiu-Yuan Fang
> > > chiumanfu@home.com
> > > ICQ=5614919
> > > http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html
> > >
> >
> > ===
> > http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/3904/
> > _________________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> >


5749 Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:53:39 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: MOSFET sensor thingy "Richard Caudle"
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Bob Shannon wrote
> Actually, if you use a MPF-102 rather than the 2N7000, you will have
> reinvented Terry Newton's
> electrostatic wake-up feelers on his older learning walker design.
> =

> Also seach the archives for the Capaciflector sensor threads. Cool stuff=
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The MPF-102 is the FET that I didn't have. I found the circuit on Bill Bea=
ty's Amatuer Science Website(copyright 1987). As far as the Capaciflector =
goes, the MOSFET thingy is really nothing like it. The capaciflector has a=
variable frequency(apples) and the MOSFET has variable voltage(oranges). =
This thingy dosen't seem to be electrostatically sensitive, but I have to w=
ork on it more before I'm willing to commit to that!

Richard


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>
 Bob Shannon <
href=3D"mailto:bshannon@tiac.net">bshannon@tiac.net>wrote V>
> Actually, if you use a MPF-=
102 =

rather than the 2N7000, you will have
> reinvented Terry Newton's
=
> =

electrostatic wake-up feelers on his older learning walker design.
> =


> Also seach the archives for the Capaciflector sensor threads. =
; =

Cool stuff!





 

The MPF-102 is the FET that I di=
dn't =

have.  I found the circuit on Bill Beaty's Amatuer Science =

Website(copyright 1987).  As far as the Capaciflector goes, the MOSFET=
=

thingy is really nothing like it.  The capaciflector has a variable =

frequency(apples) and the MOSFET has variable voltage(oranges).  This =

thingy dosen't seem to be electrostatically sensitive, but I have to work o=
n it =

more before I'm willing to commit to that!

 

Richard

 







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