Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12984
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Aaron Letts beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:40:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: info
I have looked around, but most of the pages don't
really give you a good explination (the ones I have
looked at). Im new to all this stuff, and most of the
site just dont give me what I am looking for. They
jusy give a brief explenation and a schematic. I want
to know all about what they do and so on...
--- SkavenArmy@cs.com wrote:
> LET THE FLOODGATES OPEN!!!dude, that shouldve been
> sent to one person...now
> we all get to see how they work , urls to pages that
> may or may not work ,
> several hundred WWW.BEAM-ONLINE.COM suggestions(mine
> included) , some flames
> for not doing your homework and a lil bit of
> research(this one is a
> spark..not wuite a flame , but not really a nice
> e-mail), and several
> thousand new ideas , so thanks dud!
>
> Not tilden
> Not one of tildens bots
> Not a lamp that one of tildens photovores runs off
> of
> Not tildens excretory substance
> Just jason (id rather be the lamp!!)
>
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12985 Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:34:33 EDT Re: Ambler and so on beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com In a message dated 4/3/00 8:27:36 PM Central Daylight Time, devs@idirect.com
writes:
<< Kyle just spent the better part of an hour going over many of the robots
on your web page. Jumping up and down every time a new picture loaded
saying, "I want to build one of those, I want to build one of those." He
is very impressed with Ambler, but his all time favorite is Bubble
Bot--he is begging to go to the mall to get some vending machine bubbles
so he can create one or two. I think he has plans to let them lose in
the front room to drive the cat nuts. He is off happily planing to copy
one or more of your design ideas over the coming weeks.
He wants me to thank you for all the inspiration.
Regards,
Dave
>>
Wow, its great to see somebody that excited about BEAM at that young an age!
I really wish i had found this when i got into amateur radio when I was 11.
Thats cool that he is ready to tackle some more robots already. Just thought
i'd drop a line!
-Spencer
<http://www.botic.com/users/beamstop>
not a robot scientist
not a college major
not a grad student
not a professor
not a very organized person
just Spencer (isn't that impressive enough?)
12986 Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:53:40 EDT Re: info beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SkavenArmy@cs.com its pretty much just a dead cycle.....hard to explain
12987 Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:05:45 EDT Re: Ambler and so on beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SkavenArmy@cs.com i really feel stupid..i cant get an led flasher to work im 17, and heres this
kid whose 11(no ofense in any way) and is building robots left and
right.....i think ill stick to munitions, paintball,and bikes/are/programing
12988 Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:05:30 EDT Updated beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com I've finally updated that background on my web page, it's easier to see now!
-Spencer
<http://www.botic.com/users/beamstop>
not a robot scientist
not a college major
not a grad student
not a professor
not a very organized person
just Spencer (isn't that impressive enough?)
12989 Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:48:27 EDT re: Updated beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SkavenArmy@cs.com Hey! great site!!!!! if only i checked out any links...well at least i have
something to do tonight at 4:30 am....
jay Z
12990 Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:08:10 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: Ambler and so on BEAM David Simmons He's nine, and don't let that stop you from building. It takes a long
time to get things right and Kyle has some real advantages with moving
into BEAM Robotics that you don't see by just reading this list.
Kyle learned how to read by first learning how to read and understand
circuit drawings. He has had a real difficult time in school over the
past few years and electronics is the one thing that I have found that
holds his interest and keeps him driven.
Kyle started out by taking VCR's and the like apart when he was six,
bread boarding circuits by seven and soldering them on pref. board just
after. What he is doing now has taken 3 1/2 years of constantly trying
and failing. That is hundreds of hours spent with schematic symbols,
drawings, beard boarding, soldering. It takes time, and BEAM is just his
latest addition. He is walking into it with a vast background of failure
and successes to draw upon.
Don't get discouraged, take on one simple project at a time and in a few
months you will surpass what Kyle is doing with ease.
I don't know what your current knowledge of basic electronics is but I
recommend picking "Getting Started in Electronics" by Forrest Mims III
(sp?). Long before Kyle entered BEAM he spent a lot of time working with
the circuits from that book and others from Radio Shack.
Don't give up, it takes a lot of effort and it is worth it!!!
Regards,
Dave
SkavenArmy@cs.com wrote:
>
> i really feel stupid..i cant get an led flasher to work im 17, and heres this
> kid whose 11(no ofense in any way) and is building robots left and
> right.....i think ill stick to munitions, paintball,and bikes/are/programing
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