Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10970
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Blumojo13@aol.com
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:03:11 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] more snake bots
A collection of snakebots from around the
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Nasa research snakebots---
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10971 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:51:27 EST [alt-beam] Unicore beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com I've heard of this circuit called the unicore, apparently used in BEAMants.
Does anybody know of a web page that might have some info or tutorials?
-Spencer
10972 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:06:47 EST [alt-beam] Re: Unicore beam@sgiblab.sgi.com JVernonM@aol.com In a message dated 2/27/00 5:57:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, BUDSCOTT@aol.com
writes:
> I've heard of this circuit called the unicore, apparently used in BEAMants.
> Does anybody know of a web page that might have some info or tutorials?
Hi Spencer,m
Check out my site under photovores for a bot called Scarlet. Also check out
Adaptobotics.com. I don't know of any tutorials but schematics with differing
component values are all over the place. Beam Heretics also has an archive of
the circuit with the original Tilden sketch. Also there's some info at BEAM
Online.
See ya,
Jim
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
ICQ# 55657870
10973 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:34:16 GMT [alt-beam] Re: Diskette Drives beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Mike Kulesza"
>I was wondering if 3.5 in floppy drives used geared motors, i'm assuming
>they
>do, but i wanted to be sure before i destroyed something!
None that I've seen. They use really flat, and wide motors for the main disk
rotor, and a stepper for the wand with the reader/recorder device on it.
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10974 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:43:52 EST [alt-beam] Re: Unicore beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com That is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen! your robots really
put the "A" in BEAM! i wish i had that artistic ability looks really cool!
-Spencer
10975 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:39:16 -0700 [alt-beam] Schematics beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Flaming Headphones Hi all,
OK, I'm just working on my third bot, a "Chiu Photovore." Anyway I
breadboarded the circuit, but it didn't go. I worked and worked and
worked, until I looked at the pics on his site. My 3906's were in
backwards. So I've fixed that now, and it works, but my question is
this: On a schematic, which of the leads is the emitter and which is the
collector? The base is pretty obvious, and I thought that the other 2
were as well, but I was wrong. Here's how I'm reading it right now: If
the arrow is pointing in, like on the 3906, it's the collector. If it's
pointing out, like on the 3904, it's the emitter. Is that correct? This
is really weird, because when I boarded it reading this way, I got the
3904s right but the 3906's wrong.... So I'm afraid to start soldering
until I get it sorted out.
TIA,
Mike, AKA Flaming Headphones
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10976 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:52:30 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: cheap source for pager/gearmotors found! (and parts) alt-beam@egroups.com Ben A Micklin Attention all:
MPJA (Martin P. JOnes and Associates) is selling pager motors for 3.95$,
and gearmotors for 7$. You can order a catalog off thier website.
They also have many things BEAMers want. Check 'em out at: www.MPJA.com
~ben~
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:15:36 -0800 (PST) "Travis D."
writes:
> I just hooked up my master/slave bicore circuit this
> morning, but I have a question. Is the slave bicore
> supposed to follow the master or is it supposed to be
> the opposite of the master (all I'd have to do is
> switch the motor leads to change it to follow it, but
> I'm not sure how it is supposed to be in order to hook
> it to a 2 motor walker--has anyone every tried hooking
> them up opposite one another?).
>
> Please respond to me personally,
> Thanks,
>
> Travis
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10977 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:56:33 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: Diskette Drives alt-beam@egroups.com Ben A Micklin No, they don't. They ALWAYS use stepper motors, which have little use in
BEAM.
~ben~
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:53:01 EST BUDSCOTT@aol.com writes:
> I was wondering if 3.5 in floppy drives used geared motors, i'm
> assuming they
> do, but i wanted to be sure before i destroyed something!
>
> -Spencer
>
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10978 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:14:44 PST [alt-beam] Re: yahoo chat, anyone? alt-beam@egroups.com "Jonathan Smolders" Yeah, sure. I'll be on here for a little while so just go to the Yahoo! beam
chat and I'll be there. If you miss me, I guess we'll have to plan a certian
time for another day.
Jonathan Smolders
Beamrobotics@hotmail.com
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>Reply-To: alt-beam@egroups.com
>To: "BEAM"
>Subject: [alt-beam] yahoo chat, anyone?
>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:49:25 -0500
>
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>site in a chatty mood.
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10979 Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:16:08 +1100 (EST) [alt-beam] Re: Schematics beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Ben Hitchcock > Hi all,
> OK, I'm just working on my third bot, a "Chiu Photovore." Anyway I
> breadboarded the circuit, but it didn't go. I worked and worked and
> worked, until I looked at the pics on his site. My 3906's were in
> backwards. So I've fixed that now, and it works, but my question is
> this: On a schematic, which of the leads is the emitter and which is the
> collector? The base is pretty obvious, and I thought that the other 2
> were as well, but I was wrong. Here's how I'm reading it right now: If
> the arrow is pointing in, like on the 3906, it's the collector. If it's
> pointing out, like on the 3904, it's the emitter. Is that correct? This
> is really weird, because when I boarded it reading this way, I got the
> 3904s right but the 3906's wrong.... So I'm afraid to start soldering
> until I get it sorted out.
The side with the arrow is the emitter. Always. Transistors do work
backwards (collector and emitter reversed) but not very well as you found
out.
For a bit more info, check out
http://wollongong.apana.org.au/~ben/info
Ben
10980 Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:10:10 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: HANK alt-beam@egroups.com, "beam@sgiblab.sgi.com" David Simmons Etobicoke at Lakeshore and Kipling...
Nice to find someone in area.
Find any good BEAM suppliers, or clubs, in the city so far?
Later,
Dave
Mike Kulesza wrote:
> Hello... Where in Toronto do you live?
> I'm in Mississauga at Winston Churchill and Derry
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