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Message #06201



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: James G Watt jim@kinetic-arts.demon.co.uk
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:45:24 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: master/slave bicore walker problems


In article , Phillip A.
Ryals writes
>Where did you attach the springs? Just a central point, or did you tie
>opposite legs together?


I attached them to the centre of the 'body'.
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6202 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:53:20 EDT [alt-beam] Re: master/slave bicore walker problems beam@sgiblab.sgi.com JVernonM@aol.com In a message dated 9/27/99 1:21:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
phillip@ryals.com writes:

> Where did you attach the springs? Just a central point, or did you tie
> opposite legs together?
>
Try different setups. Commonly, the springs go from each leg to a central
point on the body. The rule here is to experiment. Different springs, spring
tension and spring location will give different results. It does sound like
you need to play with the biasing resistor on the side of the Bicore
controlling the misbehaving leg as well. As to feedback, I haven't seen a
good example of feedback serious enough to change gate or motor torque and
direction. Most of what is termed "feedback" is really the quirkiness of
these coupled oscillators. Stop believing what was written over a year or
more ago. Most of it has been disproved in practice. True feedback can be
achieved, but not with these setups. I am curious about the technique or
gadget that Rich mentioned earlier. Maybe when the inventor releases some
info on the thing, then we can see what it does. I do suspect it has
something to do with varying resistance though.
Jim



6203 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:07:20 -0300 [alt-beam] andrew miller alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) why did Andrew Miller delete his web page?

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