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Message #13391
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:53:36 -0500
Subject: Re: cool stuff
I've got a couple of those. They have 4 fixed but slightly springy legs
with little rubber feet. Their head is a brass disk with a hole drilled
off-center and stuck on the shaft of the wind-up motor that forms their
body. You wind them, let them go, and they thrash around like they're
having a seizure. They don't really get much of anywhere but around in
circles... Maybe with some work on the feet they would do better.
>check out http://wwwgatewayelex.com/
and/or their paper ad in "Nuts and
>Volts" magazine - $1.95 pager motors, and "Spinney the wind-up Critter" for
>$8.50 - a
>1-motor (wind-up) 4-legged walker .. anyone else getting ideas? :)
>
>Wyzyrd
><:)}
>
>
Bill Richman
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r
(Home of the COSMAC Elf
microcomputer simulator!)
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