Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10935
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Timothy Flytch" flytch@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:58:25 PST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: walker
>or you might try lengthening the front legs, and then increasing the angle
>of the front motor a bit more.
>-Sparky
Sparky,
Could you elaborate on this... Do you mean make all the changes so that the
body stays at the same angle at the end... or to change angle too??? (angle
being relative to the ground)
confused,
Timothy...
>At 07:49 PM 2/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >I had that problem before too, drove me nuts...
> >You may have too much weight near the back legs.
> >Try shifting some weight towards the front of the walker,
> >that seemed to work for me.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >At 08:35 PM 2/26/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >> My walkers back legs dont come off the ground. It is a simple 2
>motor
> >>walker in the format of Chews walker ver2.2. Are the back legs supposed
>to
> >>come off the ground? He cant hardly climb over anything , he can get his
> >>front legs up on a thin magazine (smithsonian one) but the back legs
>cant
> >>make it.
> >>
> >>Steve
> >
> >
> >
>
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10936 Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:22:21 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: Cheap calculator cells beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Senior I have a photopopper that uses a calc cell. It goes fast enough for me.
http://www.cruzers.com/~kyled/bugger.html
Lates,
Kyle
TINDEH@aol.com wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern,
> Have any of you guys been to those outlet type malls where you have
> everything from Nike direct to Bose shops, well out here in southern CA we
> have a lot of these type of malls and some of these malls have Casio and
> Sharp direct stores. Well, what I am trying to say is at these malls you can
> buy refurbished solar powered calculators for around a $1.50 to $2 and the
> solar cells on these calcs. work excellent for BEAM robots. Hope this can
> help anyone.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andy T
10937 Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:28:09 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: Aquabots beam@sgiblab.sgi.com, rastein@dakotacom.net Senior I work at a ktichen store and get all the broken timers :) They are
great, but I've yet to attach a motor to them. How'd you attach the
motor to the gears?
-Kyle
Robert Stein wrote:
>
> At 12:36 PM 2/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 2/23/00 12:23:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >rastein@dakotacom.net writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> >Where'd you get the gear assemblies?
> >
> >See ya,
> >Jim
> >http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
> >ICQ# 55657870
>
> To be honest, I was not looking forward to scrounging up a real
> OTU. So I used normal , everyday, kitchen timers (well the ones that have
> a metal insides). Strip most of the innards out and couple the motor to
> one of the gears, and you are in business. The timers are very cheap. I
> think they were $3 per timer. So $7 total for a motor gear combo. I am
> currently trying to come up with a tutorial for it for someone else, but I
> would be more than happy to post it somewhere if it is wanted.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robert
10938 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:44:18 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: walker beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG At 09:58 PM 2/26/00 PST, you wrote:
>Sparky,
>Could you elaborate on this... Do you mean make all the changes so that the
>body stays at the same angle at the end... or to change angle too??? (angle
>being relative to the ground)
well, to get more "LIFT" you would increase the angle of the front motor
(towards the sky. BUT...
if your legs where already configured so that the body was PARELLEL with
the floor, they would then be to short, (having been lifted UP a bit more
you see)
thats what i meant by lenghening front legs, but mabe a slight adjustment
(turning leg assembly IN towards body would lengthen the leg reach enuff.
-bet you're REALLY confused now!
-Sparky
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