Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #08015



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Thomas Pilgaard Nielsen ascii@hum.auc.dk
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:39:34 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: About motors??


k154067@students.cc.tut.fi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone knows where I can purshace motor and gear here in Europe to
> my beam robot???

I've been told that Conrad.de has rather cheap and efficient
hobby-servo's

Hope this will help you out.

Cheers,

Thomas
>
> Tappi
> k154067@cc.tut.fi

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8016 Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:51:42 PST [alt-beam] motion powered metal detector... beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Timothy Flytcher" This will be come a common product in the near feature ... but they are NOT
designed to be sensitive... they are made for the US army for giving out in
poorer countries (that we have mined the sh#% out of) as mine sweepers...
meant to be a disposable item... low tech... and useless as a true metal
detector...
Timothy...
>
>In the UK there was a motion powered metal detector shown on 'Tomorrow's
>World'. The power came from a pendulum geared to a motor. The swing of
>the pendulum was limited to keep the gears in contact.
>This was passed onto a rectifier circuit and then onto what I would
>imagine would be something like a basic solar engine circuit. Perhaps
>this could find some use (unlike the metal detector which still needed
>tweaking a bit).
>
>Ken

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8017 Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:05:18 +0000 [alt-beam] Re: photowalker beam@sgiblab.sgi.com James G Watt >The head could look for something other than light, maybe
>heat, or whatever. As the bot is walking toward the light if the cat walks by
>the head would turn and follow the cat.

But the cat would instantly bat the hell out of the walker:)
It'd look great though:
robot> Oh look, a CAT...ARGH - SMASH.
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8018 Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:58:27 -0800 [alt-beam] Photowalker - new webpage "'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com'" "Myhill, Adam" Could someone tell me the URL for that photowalker, and Justin's new
webpage/company that has the photowalker, and the 1/2DOF heads ??

I'm at work and want to show some collegues.. all that info is on my home
machine

Thanks!







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