Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #08226



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Timothy Flytcher" flytch@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 09:47:36 PST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAMjet


Great :)
Justin, There was three or four ideas there which one or combo are you
use'n??? And NO you could never take the wind from my sail :)) I'd would
love to hear about yours... Details... Details...
Timothy...


> >However!!! you have given me another idea... Has anyone ever built a
> >helicopter or airplane that is on one side of a balance so that when the
> >solarengine fires it will launch into flight??? I picture a character
>forker
> >DR-1 triplane with solar panel upper wings... sitting on a desk ... when
>the
> >engine fires it pulls the plane forward around the circle ... wings
>lifting
> >it off the runway... and making three or four turns before slowly
>stelling
> >back down again... OR... maybe a mobile hanging from the ceiling with a
> >small blimp on one outstretched arm and a plusher prop???
>
>I just thought I'd be a pratt and mention that I've had one of these
>underway for a while. I say this not because I want to take any wind out
>of your sails (I wouldn't be working on one if it didn't seem like a
>great idea :-), but at my current rate of progress, anything anyone else
>attempts will be finished long before mine, and when mine is finished,
>I'd like it to sound credible if I claim that I independantly arrived at
>the same idea as you, rather than just grabbed it and acted on it :-)
>(Not that there is anything wrong with copying - you just get extra
>brownie points for coming up with something yourself :-)
>
>Hmmm, there should be a word in the BEAM lexicon for the above message,
>so instead of writing all that, I can just say "I'd like to register an
>'independant arrival' on that concept", or something...
>Or does no-one think like me and you all think I'm strange for posting
>this message?
>
>Seeya
>Justin

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8227 Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:03:40 -0500 [alt-beam] Solarfly peepers... "BEAM" "Richard Caudle"
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Hi all!

I was looking at the Solarfly in the newest Mondotronics catalog (www.robot=
store.com) and notoced that there are what appears to be IR emitters where =
the eyes should be. Is this what is there, or am I looking at it with an u=
ninformed eye? =


Also, I found an old motion activated switch from about 10 years ago and wa=
s wondering if anyone has experimented with using pyroelectric sensors in B=
EAM beasties. Shout out if you have or have ideas.

Thanx!

Richard Caudle
www.geocities.com/frankendaddy
Home ICQ - Frankendaddy

Guardians of the sacred words: Nee, Ptang, and NeeWhon! =



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>
Hi all!
 

I was looking at the Solarfly in=
the =

newest Mondotronics catalog (
href=3D"www.robotstore.com)">http://www.robotstore.com">www.robotstore.com) and notoced that=
there =

are what appears to be IR emitters where the eyes should be.  Is this =
what =

is there, or am I looking at it with an uninformed eye? 

 

Also, I found an old motion acti=
vated =

switch from about 10 years ago and was wondering if anyone has experimented=
with =

using pyroelectric sensors in BEAM beasties.  Shout out if you have or=
have =

ideas.

 

Thanx!

 

Richard Caudle

href=3D"www.geocities.com/frankendad=">http://www.geocities.com/frankendaddy">www.geocities.com/frankendad=
dy
Home =

ICQ - Frankendaddy

 

Guardians of the sacred words: N=
ee, =

Ptang, and NeeWhon!         =





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