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Message #09910



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BUDSCOTT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:55:42 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Snake robots


does anybody have a good tutorial on how to make a snake robot? and also i
was wondering just how expensive how comlex and how many motors does it take?
Any replies are welcome, even if you just have a small insignifigant fact
about these bots
thanks very much!



9911 Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:56:02 -0500 Re: Tutorial Addy Yeow
> i think you should make a tutorial on something that have never been done
in
> BEAM. what about flying BEAM bot!!!...yeah a machine that really fly and
> autonomous of course..if you can't do this i'm hoping someone out there
> could do it very soon...anyone
>
>
> >From: "Geoff Waters"
> >Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> >To:
> >Subject: Tutorial
> >Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 21:15:33 +0200
> >
> >Hi- I am thinking of making a tutorial for my site, but what should it
be?
> >(Two motor) walker, Photovore, solaroller, symet, head? Any suggestions
as
> >to what i can make a tutorial on, anything that would be significant to
the
> >world of BEAM, something that somebody's never done before.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Andrew Waters
> >Port Elizabeth
> >South Africa
> >e-mail: waters@intekom.co.za
> >Website: www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Hoop/2853/default.html
>
> ______________________________________________________
>


9912 Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:46:30 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Re: Tutorial & question beam@sgiblab.sgi.com David Stafford http://www.snakerobots.com/

It's not beam, but it is very cool!

--- BUDSCOTT@aol.com wrote:
> that would be awesome, a snake bot! i've seen video and
> pictures of them, but
> that would be very cool to have a tutorial on how to make
> one! which leads me
> to a question, are there any good sights that even have
> anything on snake
> bots?
>
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9913 Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:51:06 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Re: Solar power question beam@sgiblab.sgi.com David Stafford Guys,

Put enough in series to get the voltage you want, then put
sets of that many in parallel to get the current you want.

Dave

--- Jim Taylor wrote:
> Thats a good question, and I think I'll try it tonight.
> I can only
> speculate upon the results. However I'll try it with
> some .5 volt 200 mah
> cells, and some bigger calc cells.
> I'll post my findings to the list.
> |____|
> -------O()O-------
> James Taylor
> URL: http://fly.to/springmeadows
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Elmo
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Solar power question
>
>
> > Question: If you have one cell that produces stacks of
> current at a low
> > voltage and another that produces heaps of voltage but
> with very little
> > current. Is there some way to connect the two to get a
> good overall
> > balance of votage can current?
> >
> > Elmo
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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9914 Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:51:07 PST [alt-beam] Re: Tutorial beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Timothy Flytch" Ok Jim,
you caught my attention with that... now let me see... three feet tall ...
About ~four feet wide and six feet long?????
kind of hard on the living room furniture???
LOL...
Timothy...
>.......but what I want to do, of course, is to build a 3 foot tall
>Walker !!!
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9915 Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:37:58 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: Tutorial "William Cox"
> turbot

...Which is...
-William

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