Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12319
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Chris Weimann cweimann@telusplanet.net
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:52:22 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Muscle/Bio wire
i bought the sitquito book
if you know a bit about electronics the only good part is getting the
llittle bot and the muscle wire to play with
:)
the book also goes into a bit more detail on how the wire works
-chris
Sathe Dilip wrote:
> If you do a search on Amazon for STIQUITO, you will find a couple of
> books on this subject by the inventor of Stiquito. These books come
> with a kit for making basic Stiquito - no controller. Stiquito is based
> on Nitinol or muscle wire.
>
> If you want to do it from scratch & without paying for the book, go
> here:
>
> ftp://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/stiquito/
>
> I think the .ps documents contain enough information to build Stiquito.
> Most of the other information there is dated in terms of buying kits
> etc.
>
> Dilip
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bruce Robinson wrote:
> >
> > Lydia Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > Does any one know if you can use biowire instead of
> > > motors for walking 'bots?
> >
> > It has been done, but it seems to be a real power hog. The only link I
> > have so far is for a kit version that Richard Piotter built ...
> >
> > http://richfiles.calc.org/BORIS.html
> >
> > Bruce
>
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