Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06388
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Darrell Johnson wundoba@pacbell.net
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 20:45:47 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: SW1 leg info
Jason - wrote:
> .and why does he need so many
> bicores board in one two motor walker
it probably uses 3 bicores. one 'clock'bicore driving two slave bicores
that run the legs.. which should allow enough variation in the gaits to
allow for turning.. (given the right leg setup)
I'd be interested in seeing if anyone has tried doing this.. I've been
meaning to give it a go, but have been really busy for a while now..
soon I'll get back to it though.
Darrell
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6389 Mon, 04 Oct 1999 20:53:11 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: vibration as "locomotion"? beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Darrell Johnson here's a link to thier stuff:
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~meinfo/labs/micro/insects/insects.htm
they're also trying to make them fly:
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~garcia/adam.html
have fun, and don't get too inspired.... :)
"Mark W. Noakes" wrote:
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> Researchers at Vanderbilt University are looking into this approach based
> on piezo actuators.
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6390 Tuesday, 5 October 1999 3:54 Re: Beam Idea beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Dan Larson
>How about using the shadow?
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>On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:00:31 -0000, Alistair Phillips wrote:
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>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I had a cool idea on the weekend for a cool use for a Beam device. I
thought
>>since most beam things are designed to be attracted to light (being sloar
>>powered). If you could make a beam robot designed to move around a
circular
>>track in small increments and follow the sun around this track then you
>>could make yourself a BEAM sundial with the robot representing the time. I
>>think it would be a good talking point at least.
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>>The biggest problems that I can see would to make to move in small enough
>>increments as to accurately measure the time and making it water proof.
>>
>>Anyone out there willing to come up with a working prototype?
>>
>>Alistair Phillips
>>Email: Alistair.Phillips@anu.edu.au
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