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Message #10054
To: 'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com' beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Scolman,Jim ScolmaJi@amsworld.com
Date: Friday, 11 February 2000 6:30
Subject: RE: ....more new questions....
>Thanks.....is this the reason that there are few solar powered
>walkers.....size, weight, complexity ?
>
>Jim Scolman
>AMS Services, Inc.
>Bothell, WA
>425-402-1000 x353
>206-910-6095
>scolmaji@amsworld.com
>Network Administrator
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dennison Bertram [mailto:dibst11+@pitt.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:48 AM
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: RE: ....more new questions....
>
>
>Yep, it's kinda strange but think about it, the biggest thigns that ends up
>happening is while the 'power' goes up linearly, (?) the mass of the robot
>goes up geometrically. So eventually you will end up with a robot that is
to
>big to move. But because of the Geometrically you do find a point when you
>are makeing the robot very SMALL that the 'power' is MUCH MUCH greater than
>the mass. So, the idea is to miniaturize. I just woke up, so it's something
>like that.
>
>dennison
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com [mailto:owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com]On
>Behalf Of Scolman,Jim
>Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:04 PM
>To: BEAM Mailing List (E-mail)
>Subject: ....more new questions....
>
>
>Good morning, please be gentle with me as I am very new to BEAM and
>electronics......as I understand so far, the solar cell is the collector
and
>the capacitor is the storage......within reason then, why not make both of
>the parts as large as possible?.....are we dealing with the laws of
>diminishing returns and/or entropy.......or would the bot be too heavy to
>move?....or........this is all great stuff, thanks.....JWS.
>
>Jim Scolman
>AMS Services, Inc.
>Bothell, WA
>425-402-1000 x353
>206-910-6095
>scolmaji@amsworld.com
>Network Administrator
>
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