Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10007
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Thomas Pilgaard" ascii@hum.auc.dk
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:51:13 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: bicore photovores
Wauv Jim,
congratulations on that. Boy, I can't !wait! to get mine assembled. Dang
that lecture I have to give tomorrow; preparation sucks when there's more
interesting things to do.
Cheers,
Thomas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com [mailto:owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com]On
> Behalf Of JVernonM@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 2:30 PM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: bicore photovores
>
>
> In a message dated 2/10/00 6:36:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> ascii@hum.auc.dk
> writes:
>
> > For a great schematic and component breakdown etc. etc. you
> might want to
> > have a look at
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/3904/pictures/ucoba.html
> Yep, if you are looking for a great little rover/photovore it's
> very hard to
> beat the BEAMant. Justin's component choices are very good in all light
> levels, and if you are daring, you can replace the photobridge
> and coupling
> resistors with trim pots for tweaking purposes. I'll give an
> example of the
> versatility of the BEAMant. I just got back from the Robot Rally
> in Atlanta.
> I entered Scarlet (a BEAMant rover) into the open competition. I didn't
> expect to win anything and really couldn't concentrate on the competition
> because of all of the interest in my display table. I mean, I was
> hoarse from
> answering so many questions. Anyway, Scarlet won 3rd place! It
> actually beat
> out bots that cost 2-3000 dollars to build and Scarlet was more
> functional. I
> have exactly $19.50 in Scarlet total (not counting the BG Micro
> gearmotors,
> which I got in trade from Lee Golden). I would highly suggest building a
> BEAMant. If you don't want to freeform or make your own PCBs,
> Justin sells
> them plain, or prepopulated. It is definitely a great little circuit!
> BTW, Scarlet won a beautiful plaque and a micro controller
> starter kit from
> the prize table. I found it a little ironic that an analog bot
> won a micro
> controller from a contest that was dominated by micro controller
> based bots
> (Scarlet was the only analog entry). What do you think of that Mark T.?
> See ya,
> Jim
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
> ICQ# 55657870
>
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