Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12923
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: SkavenArmy@cs.com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:16:19 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Ideas................. was --- Biped
i have found it in the battletech mech' guides 2050,i am looking for a
lube(so far , ky is the most solid and has a good conductivity...and it
doesnt leave that funny aftertaste!(j/k)) i havent found a good elastomer
yet....btw: the mechs use an elastomer that can be "graphted" to other parts
of the frame if neede.d.......i wish so much that all this crap would come
true....
IM WITH THE HOUSE OF MARIK!
Not an LED
Not a 22uF CAP
Not a photovoric unit with the hunger add-on
Not SPENCER
Just Jay-z
12924 Sat, 1 Apr 2000 23:51:08 EST [alt-beam] Re: Ideas..... ~ 4 position sensor beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Meabadboy@aol.com
content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
In a message dated 4/1/2000 3:44:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
sebastiaan_van_v@hotmail.com writes:
<< Go to a cheap shop and buy yourself a nice kitchen timer >>
hey thanks for the idea ~ ill give that a try also..........
But Im building this for a position sensor (see the attached photo)
have you seen the movie "THE ROCK" with Sean Connery? ~ the scene in the
shower room where there is a litttle tumbler motion sensor? ~ the movie shows
2 or 3 good close ups of it.
anyway ~ I had an idea of taking a small scrap of printed circuit bord and
drilling a 5/8" hole in the center ~ I layed out a set of pads and a contacts
for each pad and etched it before drilling ~ (see the pic attached) ~ the pic
has only 4 positions ~ and right now that will do for my application ~ but i
can for see as many different positions you want to make ~ I drilled the hole
in the bord and then took a piece of bare copper wire and wrapped it around a
5/8" rod to make it round to fit just into the hole ~ i cut the wire and then
forced it into the hole and sodered it into place ~ i then took the dremil
and cut the sodered wire at each seperation ~ this gave me 4 seperated
contacts ~ i made a smaller bord and in the center took a small eye and
screwed it into the center and sodered a wire on the opposite side ~ i
fassioned a small rod with a eye on one end out of a papreclip and affixed it
to the eye in the bord ~ at the other end of the rod i glued a small fishing
weight to the paper clip ~ i took standoffs and mounted the small board above
the other board and as you can see in the picture attached I now have a
position sensor ~ 4 axis
Steve
Attachment: posensor.jpg
Home