Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #07220
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Sean Rigter rigter@cafe.net
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:50:22 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Craig's chloroplast SE
Truth is the operating voltage is higher! Nothing else is different with respect
to existing SEs!
wilf
JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/31/99 10:29:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, cybug@home.net
> writes:
>
> > "OK, from FLED to 1381, that was a step... but from 1381 to chloroplast,
> > it's a whole new world. I build another little guy last night, and forget
> > the heat-shrink tubing on motor axles, i put full-on wheels onto the motors
> > - that engine has some serious torque! From speed NEVER being an issue,
> to
> > keeping the hysterisis down, because my guy does a 180 on every burst, it's
> > never been so exciting."
> >
> YEP! Very interesting engine. It is nice to have something with a little
> power to it. I was just wondering, what would happen if you hooked up the
> chloroplasts in a chain, each feeding the next. Would you have a "neuron"
> like deal going that can hold a charge along it's system like memory? This
> just popped into the void between my ears and I haven't thought it through.
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> See ya,
> Jim
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
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