Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10748
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Robert Stein rastein@dakotacom.net
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:21:49 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Aquabots
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At 10:22 AM 2/23/00 -0800, you wrote:
>How did you use those in a walker?!?
>
>You are talking about the pancake type motors, right? I've never seen a
>gear motor in a cheap walkman. All I've seen are the pancake motors that
>are connected to a pulley with a small belt. What brand are you talking
>about?
>
>Please let us know. If this is truly a viable alternative, we shouldn't
>really be wasting our time on servos.
>
>-phillip
Well you are right, there are no gear motors in them. I couple it
to a gear system. I have pictures of the bot at the yahoo club site. They
are under eisbot's bots directory. It is not pretty, but it was an attempt
to make it cheap, ....... and it works.
It is those motors from walkmans. The cheapest I could find. I
got two for $9. I took the motor, including the mounting screws, and a FEW
other parts, and trashed the rest. the plastic part attached to the motor
comes off easy, and you are in business to find a suitable gear system. If
you want to know more on that let me know.
For those that cant get to the site I have attached it. Like I mentioned
before It is not pretty, but can be easily prettied up. I am also working
on trimming it down a bit, although it is a great platform to mount
sensors, etc on.
Robert
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10749 Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:32:05 -0700 [alt-beam] Have you guys been busy or something? beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "John A. deVries II" I received the following somewhat unexpected message from the eGroups
people about alt-beam:
>This list has exceeded the daily limit on the number of postings.
>eGroups.com's policy is to send all extra messages to the moderator
>for approval.
"So many messages, so little time!"
Zoz
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