Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10148
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Timothy Flytch" flytch@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:49:15 PST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Cool Idea, or so i think!
It's been done... but don't let that slow you down :)
just be sure you let us know what yours looks like OK???
Timothy...
I was just thinking how many times man has reinvented the wheel... be for he
used one as a steering wheel....
>
>The other day i got a really cool idea (you know, one of those ideas you
>get
>when yer sittin on the toilet). it seemed to me that using pager motors
>that
>just triggered for a small amount of time, as opposed to a continous run,
>seemed wastefull, and there might be a better way of locomotion. (NOTE TO
>READER: if this next part sounds dumb and idealistic, ignore it!) Solinoids
>(spelt wright isnt it?). has anyone tried this before, it seemed like a
>cool
>idea but i've never seen mention of it. if one mounted a solinoid on each
>side of the robot, at a 45 to 35 degree angle from the cap, and used a nice
>mechanical design to keep it from tipping ("wider is better"). Would this
>work or am i a foolish teenager? I found a 3v DC solinoid, thinkin of
>ordering it, just have to switch the 1381J to a 1381L and definitely use a
>4700uF cap. sorry for being lengthy. any input?
>
> -Spencer
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10149 Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:48:53 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: Cool Idea, or so i think! beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG cheap remote control cars use little solinoids in the steering mechinism.
At 10:47 PM 2/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, actually solenoids are much more energy INefficient than pager
motors. And the solenoids would operate less frequently than the motors
would anyway.
>It is a cool idea though. Maybe try this idea on a nonBEAM robot so you
can use...oh no....I'm gonna say it...BATTERIES!!! ARGH!
>
>Chris
>
>> The other day i got a really cool idea (you know, one of those ideas you
get
>> when yer sittin on the toilet). it seemed to me that using pager motors
that
>> just triggered for a small amount of time, as opposed to a continous run,
>> seemed wastefull, and there might be a better way of locomotion. (NOTE TO
>> READER: if this next part sounds dumb and idealistic, ignore it!)
Solinoids
>> (spelt wright isnt it?). has anyone tried this before, it seemed like a
cool
>> idea but i've never seen mention of it. if one mounted a solinoid on each
>> side of the robot, at a 45 to 35 degree angle from the cap, and used a
nice
>> mechanical design to keep it from tipping ("wider is better"). Would this
>> work or am i a foolish teenager? I found a 3v DC solinoid, thinkin of
>> ordering it, just have to switch the 1381J to a 1381L and definitely use a
>> 4700uF cap. sorry for being lengthy. any input?
>>
>> -Spencer
>>
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