Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12310
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BUDSCOTT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:37:31 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Suggestions Anyone?
Maybe what you should do is host a monthly contest where people send in
pictures of their robots and a brief description and have people vote on the
robot. This could kinda take over the idea of people sending in their bots to
be in an RJP. You could have the different robot types be individual things,
then you could come up with something like a big tutorial or article on the
winning robot.
Another thing is that there's never enough tutorials out there, you could
come up with some nice and bizzare tutorials that might not be already out
there! Hope things go well for you at beambotix!
-Spencer
12311 Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:55:39 EST [alt-beam] 1381 DLSE beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com I'm makin a BEAMant with the uCore junk, amazing stuff to fit on just one IC
chip! I was wondering, does anybody have a good description or freeform
tutorial on the 1381 DLSE solar engine, beam-online doesn't have that shtuff
up yet, any response (whether or not it really answers my question) is
welcome!
-Spencer
12312 Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:08:01 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Re: Solar panel solder beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Daniel Grace I got one of those thinking I could rig up a quick SE.
I didn't think to read the specs . . . . ..55V??? Woa!
Ya, the mA are great, but they're fragle, and won't
work themselves, so I wouldn't recomend them!
~Daniel
--- BUDSCOTT@aol.com wrote:
> the panel that i got was bought from radio shack,
> its a tinnie tiny mega thin
> silicon panel with small voltage but great mA
> action. Unfortunately i almost
> cracked the panel just trying to apply solder to one
> of the sides! i don't
> know about that on, i think i'll just move on!
>
> -Spencer
>
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12313 Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:07:28 EST [alt-beam] Re: Solar panel solder beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com Yeah, but you can still use them in parrallel, or (big 'ol or!) use nifty
voltage amplifier circuit that Wilf put up earlier, i saw that and it gave me
new hope, .55 x 3 equals 1.6v, not too bad. Yeah they are fragile, but i'm
gonna mount it on something flat so that it doesn't break, i'll do all this
stuff when i'm bored!
-Spencer
12314 Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:35:52 -0500 (EST) [alt-beam] Re: Suggestions Anyone? beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Aaron Letts If you want a good site, all of the things you said
are good to have. The more content the better. I know
that doesn't really help you out all that much, but
its the truth.
Aaron
--- Mike Kulesza wrote:
>
>
> So I know beambotix is kind of so-so... because
> theres hardly any good news
> these days, and theres not much else besides that on
> the site. so I ask you
> guys...
>
> >>>What sort of content would you like to see at
> beambotix??
>
> Examples: Products? > What kind?, Tutorials?,
> Circuits?, Photos?
> etc......
>
> Send in ALL suggestions.
>
> ___________________________
> Mike Kulesza
> www.geocities.com/beambotix
>
>
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12315 Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:17:37 EST [alt-beam] Re: Muscle/Bio wire beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com So heres the low down on muscle wire, this stuff, called SMA, or Shape Memory
Alloy. Basically this means that when the stuff is heated up, it goes back to
its original state (or so i gather). Problems, the stuff is semi-expensive,
but i suppose that a $19 1-meter roll of this stuff would replace several $10
and up servos, so if you buy it make sure to make more than one bot! the
other thing is how you use it. The best motion would probably be created if
you used a 4 nv bicore and had a two wires per leg to pull it in either
direction. BEWARE, this stuff supposedly takes up quite a bit of current, and
you need a few lengths run back and forth to get anywhere near good torque!
-Spencer
12316 Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:26 PM Re: Alternative Power beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com
>hmm...Nikoli Tesla (thats spelt write isn't it?) what a guy. I can't even
>fathom the things he thought up. But think of it, if we could find a way to
>convert regular radio waves into electricity, think of it, there are so
many
>radio waves going through the air that there would almost be an infinite
>supply of energy that we could 'rob' from radio stations and hams, like me.
>Ooo...the possibilities, unfortunately thats an uninveted technology that
>probably wont exist for a few year, o well!
>
> -Spencer
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