Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #09966



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Daniel Grace lifebytes_98@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:59:29 -0500
Subject: Re: RoachBot Photovore



> What is the blue thing inbetween the photodiodes on
> that bot? I've seen them on a lot of robots, and
> always wondered, but never asked before. My guess is a
> pot in a different packaging than most I've seen,
> judging from the placement and the schematics I've
> seen. Is that what it is? It's blue, and has a little
> metal piece that has a groove in it like a flat headed
> screw head. Is that the adjustment part of the
> potentiometer? Sorry for the dumb question, but the
> curiosity finally got the best of me.
>
> ~Daniel
>
> --- BUDSCOTT@aol.com wrote:
> > Heres the file i tried to send, its a jpeg of my
> > RoachBot photovore, could be
> > helpful if you want to see how you can attach on
> > tacticle sensors. Sorry for
> > the inconvinience.
> >
> > -Spencer
> >
>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg
Attachment: oachbotsml1.JPG > > > ===== > ICQ # 39402143 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com 9967 Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:02:48 EST [alt-beam] Re: RoachBot Photovore beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com you are correct, that would be the 100k pot. if you look around the web there is a site that has a very good photovore design for point to point soldering (freeforming). it is



9968 Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:58:35 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Re: Symet question beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Lee Golden > Do you know of any symet tutorials, this looks like
> an interest project,
> -Spencer

I built about the simplest one you can make using a
cassette tape motor and a pencil eraser. If you look
on my page at:

http://www.geocities.com/leemon1/Bots/beambots.html

you can see it. Click the link on the description and
you can see exactly how I laid out the parts on the
back of the solar cell.

Others, most notably Bob Shannon, have built some
really complex symets -- this simple one might be a
good starting point for you though.

Have fun!

Lee Golden

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9969 Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:06:11 -0700 Chloroplast...again... George Rix
Can someone send me a link to a schematic of the Chloroplast SE? I keep
losing my copy, through various mistakes.
Thanks!

Peace out!

Rob Rix

Don't take a walk, climb a tree < an ancient truism, invented last week.


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