Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13173
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 01:30:15 -0600
Subject: Re: Wacky ideas floating around
At 12:35 AM 4/8/00 , Timothy Flytch wrote:
>>From: "Mike Kulesza"
>>You
>>simply cannnot contain light!!!
>
>Sorry to nit pick but yes you can contain light... laser
>technology... Just not in a simple "glass cube"... Sorry just had to
>speak up...
Wouldn't that be _generating_ light? Or do you mean laser/fibre optics?
Because they also disperse light energy too...
-Dave
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13174 Sat, 8 Apr 2000 02:43:41 -0700 solar cells "Battle Wear"
> Hi ALL!!!
>
> First off, I would really like to thank all of you out there who welcomed
> me to this :))))
>
> I have a WICKED idea for a beam that I want to build.. I really want to
use
> solar cells on this but heres the problem, it has a very round body, and
as
> such I was wondering is there any flexible solar cells out there? I know
> there are the hard ones, but I would really like to use flexible ones that
> I can glue onto the body..
>
> If that is not possible then I am looking at those tiny single cells...
has
> any one used those with a good charge? the beam bot I am building is a
fair
> size, at least 9 - 10 inches tall.. it is going to be a photovore but I
am
> hoping to also get it so that the beam will know when he is at the edge of
> a table...
>
> Jason
>
>
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