Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12279
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Ben Hitchcock beh01@uow.edu.au
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:39:52 -0500
Subject: It works!
> Thank you to all who responded to my vibra-popper question.
>
> I turned the LED's (yes, clear-lensed LEDs used as light sensors) around
so
> that they were pointing towards the motors, not away from them, and
> nominated the other side of the robot as the front. If you can't beat
'em,
> join 'em I say.
>
> Now this flat little robot is battling it out with FRED for the best place
> under the desk lamp on my desk. It takes a while to charge up compared to
> FRED, but it sure makes an impressive racket when it does fire!
>
> I wonder why the motors only pull, not push? Aren't physical systems
> strange?
>
> Ben
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