Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #06073



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:24:00 +1200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Hot Wheels Caps


> I couldn't resist the temptation and tore apart my XVRacer. It has a
> Hot Wheels cap inside, at least the shrinkwrap on the cap has the
> logo. Anyway, I hooked it up to a BiCORE circuit that's still on my
> breadboard, and it seems to run a good long time before running down.
> 20 minutes or so from a 5 second charge off a 9V battery. It would be
> nice to find the vendor for these caps so that we can use them in our
> SE's! Anybody have any inroads at Mattell?

I suspect it might be cheaper to buy XVracers than the caps. I haven't
been able to compare them to anything as big as a 1F cap, but some crude
indications suggest they might be 2F or over. Since the whole set is
cheaper than a 1F cap, Mattel are probably getting some serious bulk
discount on them - something we wouldn't get from a vendor. Furthermore,
XV racers can be up to half the price of 1F cap if you get them in a
good sale, and discounted XV racers are much more common than discounted
caps :-)
Still, finding someone at Mattell sounds like a good idea if we could
pull it off, though I doubt it would take the price below an XV racer on
a post Xmas sale :-)

It's a pity the XV racer motors are such crap, still, the gears are nice
(crown gears don't come in the assorted gear packs that I buy)



6074 Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:56:26 +0800 [alt-beam] Z Bridge "BEAM" "Zulu" hello all...

thanks for the advice on how to convert the image files. :P guess i will
have to download something like that soon...


one question.. for the Z bridge, will it be alright to use a 74HC139P ?
cant get those F or S ones..



rdgs
ZUlu


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