Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13471
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "sebastiaan van Vliet" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 07:38:06 PDT
Subject: Re: Ben's new bot?(mech suggestion?)
Have yoiu ever lookt at sewing machines? they have triangular pieces of
metall under the needle to transport the fabric. Something like that might
add some certainty to the way the bot moves.
The metall I am referring to looks like this:
|\|\|\|\|\|\(just sawlike!)
>From: "Ben Hitchcock"
>Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: Ben's new bot?
>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:05:42 +1000
>
>My last reply to this must have been cut off by the list management system.
>I can't say the word "SENSORED", can I, no of course not. Maybe it was to
>do with the rant I had about a certain site that was adding lots of
>unwanted
>links to my BEAM links page.
>
>Anyway,
>the vibra bot is still going exactly as I left it ie. charging up under my
>desk lamp and letting out the occasional belch as it tries to make its way
>towards the light globe. But I still can't figure out the mechanics! I
>see
>mobile phones left on tables skittering about like little speed demons but
>I
>can't get mine to reliably move in one direction or another! It's so
>frustrating. The electronics work reasonably well - it chucks a hissy fit
>when I turn the light out - but I can't get it to go reliably towards the
>light.
>
>Anyway I'll let the group know when I make some progress.
>
>Ben
>
>----------
> >From: "Thomas Pilgaard"
> >To: "Beam Mailing List"
> >Subject: Ben's new bot?
> >Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 7:32
> >
>
> > Hey Ben (Hitchcock),
> >
> > hows that new bot of yours coming along? It's been long since we've
>heard
> > about that.
> >
> > - Thomas
> >
> > -----
> > [This space non-intentionally left non-blank]
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