Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #05916



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:27:02 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Wigglebot Pix



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Nice Tripod!

I strongly reccomend that you add a series resistor between the junction
of D1 and R2, and the
junction of C1 and Pin 2. The value of this will moderate the range of
bright to dark behaviors.

With pager motors, power drain is a problem eh? Hmm, how much wheel
slippage do you
have with this design?

Richard Caudle wrote:

> Hi all, I posted some pix of my latest 'bot - Wigglebot 1.0 on my
> webpage. For those of you who don't know, it can be found
> atwww.geocities.com/~frankendaddy/BEAM.html in the My Robots section.
> It's fun, but a major power sucker! Any suggestions on how to better
> power this dude? This is actually a precursor to my Icthybot Project,
> that I'll be starting soon as I can scrape up some dough for
> parts! Richard Caudle


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Nice Tripod!

I strongly reccomend that you add a series resistor between the junction
of D1 and R2, and the

junction of C1 and Pin 2.  The value of this will moderate the
range of bright to dark behaviors.

With pager motors, power drain is a problem eh?  Hmm, how much
wheel slippage do you

have with this design?

Richard Caudle wrote:


Hi all, I
posted some pix of my latest 'bot - Wigglebot
1.0 on my webpage.  For those
of you who don't know, it can be found atwww.geocities.com/~frankendaddy/BEAM.html">http://www.geocities.com/~frankendaddy/BEAM.html">www.geocities.com/~frankendaddy/BEAM.html
in the My Robots section.  It's fun, but a major power sucker! 
Any suggestions on how to better power this dude?  This is actually
a precursor to my Icthybot Project, that I'll be starting soon as I can
scrape up some dough for parts! Richard Caudle






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5917 Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:54:24 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: Wigglebot Pix "Richard Caudle"
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Bob Shannon wrote:

Hmm, how much wheel slippage do you have with this design? =


Well, there's some, but not too much. The rubber thingys are pretty soft. =
It's got a nice wiggle to it when it walks, though.

Richard =



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>
Bob Shannon wrote:
 

Hmm, how much wheel slippage do you have with this design? 

 

Well, there's some, but not too =

much.  The rubber thingys are pretty soft.  It's got a nice wiggl=
e to =

it when it walks, though.

 

Richard 




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