Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06211
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Senior kyled@cruzers.com
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:02:03 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Hey Darrell J !
Oh no no no!
:)
LEDS are simply little lights that, well, oddly, light up. FLEDS are
flahsing lights that well, flash.
SG wrote:
>
> just gotta tell ya that i visited your site and
> watched the mov of the 2DOF head - AMAZING !
> very very cool!
> then looked at your regular head, (em, not YOUR head, but your first head.
> er...ok, your first project head.)
> thanks for putting up the schematic! I was confused about the LED till i
> realized it was just an indicator light. (btw, Fled and LED are synonomous
> right?)
> i guess hats off go to the Wilfmyster too for designing the circuit.
> Is this the standard head circuit now?
> i gotta build one of these fer my desk!
>
> -Sparky
> ps:
> thing i'm confused about is on the 2DOF, how in the world it knows which
> engine to fire? hmmm....
6212 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:04:11 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: motors beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Senior Whoa whoa whoa wait, where??!! :)
I'm dying for some good cheap motors!
Is it a mail order place?
Thank you!
Kyle
Zulu wrote:
>
> hi... just saw "Loader" in Beam-Online... its a bot by Jason Freser, i
> think,.. the question is... are those motors used recommended? I'm asking
> because over here, they are selling those motors at a mere $1 each...
> roughly about $0.50-0.70 US....
>
> thought i would stock up on some if they are worth getting...
>
> rdgs
>
> zulu
>
> The Difference between interest and committment
> is that when you are interested in something, you
> do it only when its convenient. When you are
> committed to something, you accept only results,
> no excuses ----- Kenneth Blanchard -----
6213 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:41:35 -0700 [alt-beam] So newbie it hurts alt-beam@eGroups.com mr_squishee@hotmail.com Hi, just thought I'd ask some newbie questions that'd been bothering
me. First, I just ordered all the photopopper parts from Digi-Key. It
says that the transistors and 1381 are static sensitive. I've never
heard this before. What do I do again to make my work area static free?
Also, I have a questions about capacitators. I know the 1381 triggers
the cap to discharge in solarengines, but a simpler question I have is
this:If you connected a big cap to a solarengine along with the normal
cap, and had it hooked up to just take a bit of the energy from the
solar cell(with the majority going to the motor cap), would there be
some way for it to just release its energy when its mostly full? That
was probably the worst explained question ever, but I hope someone
knows what I mean.
In short: Ever once in a while, the big cap dumps all its energy into
the motors, but while it was charging, the solarengine was still
working and powering the motors like it usually does.
Thanks in advance,
Steven M
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