Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08103
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bruce Robinson Bruce_Robinson@telus.net
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 21:49:39 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: D'oh! Head Revelation
Richard Caudle wrote:
> There's another "d'oh!". I didn't
> think of that. I was thinking that
> the 'bot woulkd be turning fast enough
> to keep it from being a problem, ...
Rather than using limit switches to control enable lines, use them to
short the bias point on Nv neurons. This essentially causes a neuron to
"skip" when the associated limit switch is closed.
Of course, being a mechanical type, I particularly like Robert's
solution.
Bruce
8104 Sat, 04 Dec 1999 00:11:42 -0600 [alt-beam] solar cells... beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG well...
since you said to start with the simple,
does the length of the Leads from the cell make a diffrence?
the ones i have on the solar cells now are about three inches.
the reason i ask is:
i attached a LED to the cell's wire leads. It burned faintly.
i attached the LED directly ONTO the cell's + & - outputs and the LED
seemed to burn much brighter.
(hard to tell since the cell was directly under a bright light)
-Sparky
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