Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05958
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Darrell Johnson beamtastic@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:57:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: DIfferent approach to locomotion
all I get is a big bright green blank page.. I guess maybe there's java
in there somewhere and I can't view it on my SGI.. who knows...
about the parasite/pick-up-and-take-it bot.. you could power it with
one of those kinetic watch mechanisms.. it would 'feed' off of it's
host's movement..
I'll send out a link tonight that has this interesting electronic
barbed device.. I think it's called smart dist of something..
interesting stuff. it attaches to clothing and sticks in the fibers..
Darrell
--- Wyzyrd1 wrote:
> LOL - great minds ....
>
> I was getting ready to post this page -
> no photos yet but you'll get the idea :)
>
> http://www.wyzyrd.com/bots/
>
> check out the New! link :)
>
> Wyzyrd
> <:)}
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin
> To:
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 10:48 AM
> Subject: DIfferent approach to locomotion
>
>
> > Perhaps I should have posted this before the "most
> innovative form of
> > locomotion" competition, but because it highlights
> a current weak area
> > of BEAM affairs, it's probably unlikely to grab
> hearts anyway. Hopefully
> > it's occurred to a lot of BEAMers already anyway.
> >
> > Simply put - why move under your own power when
> you can move under
> > someone else's?
> > It's obviously a reasonably successful means of
> travel in nature
> > (hook-grass, berries, pollen, parasites, etc.),
> and it's more energy
> > efficient than motors :-)
> > Unfortunately, once you come up with a design to
> successfully harness
> > the locomotion of the environment (eg, your robot
> looks like a $2 coin -
> > leave it pretty much anywhere, and it will rapidly
> go walking...) you
> > run into the problem of "well, ok, it's got
> locomotion, now what should
> > it _do_?".
> > Since most bots are recursively-justified (eg, it
> has to move in order
> > to get light so that it can move...), an approach
> which breaks that
> > leaves me with not much idea of where to go...
> > The approach can be well suited for monitoring or
> exploring things - the
> > old radio tag for example, but that's _done_ (and
> it's not as much fun
> > as a photovore anyway :-)
> >
> > For different reasons again, I don't foresee NASA
> adopting such a system
> > for Mars surface exploration, but it could make a
> good joke :-)
> >
> > Some wind-power designs could also have (small
> amounts of) potential,
> > though probably work best as only a supplemental
> feature on a bot that
> > utilises air fans or something.
> >
>
>
>
===
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5959 Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:50:52 -0600 (MDT) [alt-beam] Re: alright....im out beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Don Papp On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
> well its been about 6 months since ive been able to make a bot, and i still
> just cant build...so im going to start selling some stuff...sigh...quick list
> of stuff i have, contact me with a fair price if you are interested
> (privately).
> Solar cells, all 4 solarbotics sizes
> gear motors, bg micro, 40:1 ratio and 1024:1 ratio escaps, even an OTU =)
> ICs...all you need, 244s, 245s, 240s, 14s, 139s, 157s
> caps, many many caps...
> resistors...same here...all the good beam values
> photodiodes, LEDs, 1381s, (3906 and 3904s in the 100s), trim pots, plenty of
> walkman motors.....
> all this crap together cost me about $3000....i tried really hard to make a
> come back but i just dont have it in me...dont konw why, oh well
I will take BG Micro motors off your hands. How many have you
got, and how much do you want for them?
| Donald Papp
| don@oa.net
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