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From: michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 18:21:38 -0300
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Robot constuction process


I was woundering if u could some how put up a video of spyder walking.
And with the turbots what movie did tilden watch before building the turbots?

Dave Hrynkiw wrote:

> At 11:38 PM 9/30/99 , Jason - wrote:
>
> >Hie all...I would ask if there is any construction process to build a
> >perfect efficient bot as mark does....so does he construct the brain on a
> >breadboard first and build a simple frame for his new bot then test out
> >the performance...and if after the brain is done...so he construct the PCB
> >and finish the mechanics/frame of his bot...or does he instantly whip out
> >a robot design and straight away constructing it with pcb without even
> >testing them ..this goes to the design of the bot too...i am asking this
> >on behalf of the begginer here in the beam list..so they have a step by
> >step to follow each time they build a bot and to help myself too...thanks
> >a lot guys for your ideas
>
> From watching him build, my best recollection is that he gets the brains
> together first, then attaches them to the motors he *wants* to use to see
> if he can get the necessary torque out of them to do the task he has in
> mind. If the motors seem satisfactory, and the sensors are behaving
> approximately as desired, he continues onto constructing the "hard" body.
>
> If the electronics don't drive the motors well enough, he (might) up the
> system voltage, use different motors, put in another motor driver chip (or
> 2), use different chips, or simply scrap it and build another!
>
> Regards,
> Dave
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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> that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
> 2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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