Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #07900
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:57:11 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: annual beam chat (Macs as well!)
I've used ircle on my Mac before. It was a long time ago, but it exists
on the Mac. I especialy like the idea of the computer speaking the text.
often, if I have a long document to read, I just open it with Simpletext
and selecty speak all! I love it!!!
Not to mention speech recognition built into the Mac OS, although it
could use some work. At least it recognizes well. Just needs more feature=
s.
I for one have just been too cheap to register ircle. I am running on
financial empty, so any expense is a little much.
Havn't done much robot work cause I've been working on a 2 car garage.
I'll be putting off any robot work till next semester. I can get credits
for doing it as an enrichment lab.
Later
Ben Hitchcock wrote:
>=20
> Download Ircle for the mac. I freaked some BEAMers out today when I to=
ld
> them that I could hear my iMac speaking everything they said!
>=20
> I really recommend ircle, it's great.
>=20
> Go to www.download.com, and search for it.
>=20
> Ben
> ----------
> >From: George Rix
> >To:
> >Subject: [alt-beam] Re: annual beam chat
> >Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 4:37 PM
> >
>=20
> >Not all of us can, because mIRC isn't available for the Mac!
> >I'm sticking to Yahoo, with which I've never had a problem.
> >Peace out!
> >
> >Rob Rix
> >
> >P.S. And there are others who will stand firm beside me!
> >Richard, Ian, got your placards ready? =3D)
> >
> >No doubt it will all make sense when we're older =D0 Calvin and Hobbes
> >
> >> From: "johannes urke"
> >> Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> >> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:01:43 CET
> >> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> >> Subject: annual beam chat
> >>
> >> hey guys why dont we have the beam chat in an other chat program lik=
e
> >> mirc???
> >> yahoo sucks i cant get in on the club site if there are over three p=
eople...
> >> nobody else i know can either so why dont we have the chat in an pre
> >> determined server on mirc lets say undernet and the channel #beamrob=
otics
> >> ???
> >> mirc can be found at http://www.mirc.com
what do you think?
> >
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------=
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> >
> >
> >
> >-- Talk to your group with your own voice!
> >-- http://www.egroups.com/VoiceChatPage?listName=ABeam&m
> >
--=20
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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7901 Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:47:43 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] power smart head beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BotDoc
Hey list,
I am playing with the power smart head to try and
get it to toggle enable pins and am having some
difficulties in doing so. What I am trying to do is
have both enable pins low on a different IC when the
head is locked on to something. The things that are
giving me troubles is that when locked on it seems to
be at nly 1/2 volts, the led's on the test IC aren't
lighting up as much as when I ground the enable pins.
I wouls also ned to get rid of the oscillating that
the circuit does when it is locked on. Anybody out
there have any ideas on how to do this? I have 4
extra inverters to do this with, but can seem to get
it to provide constant lows to the enable pins of
another IC when locked on (the other ic is a 240, low
enables turn it on).
thanks
justin
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7902 Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:59:49 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] psh question #2 beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BotDoc
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The attatched schematic is the best that I have been
able to come up with for controling enable pins with a
power smart head. It does ok in bringing the voltage
up to v+ and dropping it to ground. It is also ok at
filtering out the oscillating of the head when it is
locked on. there is one thing I can't get figured
out. that is when the head position is being moved to
the side, right before it triggers to fire the motor,
or led in my case, it becomes unable to filter out the
oscillation of the head. This only happens when it is
being turned one way. Any ideas on how to improve it
to control an enable pin with?
Justin
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7903 Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:40:26 +1100 [alt-beam] Walker Images beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Elmo Hi there James.
I just wanted to check with you about your walker images you sent to me
the other day. I apologize for not having put them up but as i was
building them a web page i stumbled across a very nasty bug in my Web
Editor software that managed to trash the page i had just made for them
and then using the HTML auto correct function that the editor supplied,
managed to trash the rest of my web pages (20 Pages destroyed in total).
Took me about three days to convince the company that makes the software
that they had a bug. Turns out to be a problem with using tables in some
way. So i have just managed to re-do all the changes that i had made to
my site since i last up loaded it (that was the only remaining copy to
survive), but now i am not sure if you still would like me to host those
files for you or if your happy to keep them at your site?
Anyway let me know.
Elmo
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