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Message #12875



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bruce Robinson Bruce_Robinson@telus.net
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:42:44 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Biped


> Tan wrote:
>
> It seems that all (well, almost all :) of BEAM tech has focused on 4
> feet, 6 feet, 1 foot (symet) etc. I was just wunderin why isn't there
> any bipeds?(walkers, and no wheels)

See:

http://www.milinst.demon.co.uk/bigfoot.htm

and

http://www.crosswinds.net/~evaristo/biped.html

Bruce



12876 Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:18:03 -0500 [alt-beam] test "Steve Jones"
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hello All
Just a quick test. Ihave been trying to send pictures to the list but none =
of my e-mails have made it through.Just thought I would try just a plain e-=
mail

Cheers Steve Jones


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>

I know how the project(s) due feeling goes. It seems that for every one
that I get off my desk two more are added. Sometime in 2010 I might find
out what color my desk top is.

Regards,
Dave



Ben Hitchcock wrote:

> > How's the vibration bot doing so far? Any chance of a schematic on that
> > on?
>
> Well, it sits on my desk. When I turn my desk lamp on, it sits there for
> about 5 minutes, charging up while I'm doing other stuff. Occasionally it
> will turn on a motor for about half a second while it tries to fight its
> way through the junk on the desk.
>
> But when I turn the light off to go to bed, you should hear it! It's
> almost like the poor little thing is complaining that the light level is
> too low! It sits there and spins its motors wildly, trying to get out of
> the monstrous shadow that has just descended on it!
>
> Schematics... Well I could do that but I'd rather iron all the bugs out of
> it first. When I released the first FRED schematic I used different
> values of resistor to now (10 k as opposed to 33k) and there are still
> copies of my old schematic floating around. I'd rather get it all working
> before handing it over to the public domain. I think the pulse length is
> too long - I might try 0.2 seconds next. The main problem at the moment
> is time: I have 5 assignments due in next week and not much chance of
> doing any BEAM stuff while they are imminent... Wait a couple of weeks?

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