Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #11661



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:06:51 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Shokbot video (quicktime version)


At 02:55 AM 3/12/00 , Jean auBois wrote:
>However, it doesn't look like robot in both sections is the same one.

That's right - they're two different walkers using Shok architecture (Don't
ask me what that exactly means...).

Still on the learning curve on how to use this Adobe Premiere video
editting software. Gotta annotate these things better!

-Dave
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"Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
http://www.solarbotics.com



11662 Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:56:41 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: Gearboxes beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Robert Stein At 03:00 PM 3/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I've been hunting for geared motors for the last month to no avail. I'm
>gettin antsy to make a new robot but its hard to do without motors, geared,
>thinkin turbot. So i was thinkin about gearboxes, why not make my own gear
>box. After realizing that i had no gears or casing to even make a pathetic
>atempt, I began to think (not really, my brain aren't worked any morefrom
>them lead fumes). Ya know those chinsy little egg timers, the ones at the
>grocery store for 2-3 bucks. Those must have gears in them, and anything that
>is a box and has gears is a gear box. So anybody who wants to venture to the
>groccery store, think BEAM. I'm gonna take a trip there and buy a couple
>probably, unless of course somebody e-mails me saying i'm weird for thinking
>about egg timers. got the idea from the OTU.
>
> -Spencer (sorry for my incoherence)

I just got done doing a tutorial into modifying them. I had posted pics of
the bot, I made last year sometime with them, maybe a month or so ago. I
finally got around to making a tutorial recently. The tutorial (forgive
the pic sizes) is at www.dakotacom.net/~rastein/bots.htm


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