Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13640
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: SkavenArmy@cs.com
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:33:48 EDT
Subject: Re: Best wheels?
ive got some lego wheels that werk greaton low or high torque motors. ill
sell them for 10c a peice.
jay z
13641 Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:48:02 EDT Re: [alt-beam] RE:solarbotics solar panels? alt-beam@egroups.com, beam@sgiblab.sgi.com turtletek@aol.com
> >It does provide more voltage but it has less current. The power of the
> >small one in 3.5V*0.006mA=0.021W while the bigger one has less voltage
but
> >a high current giving a power of 2.7*0.016=0.0432W, which is more than
> >twice the power of the smaller one.
Excuse me if the response to this message is a little late but I've just
started reading it.
Anyway, I'm just here to nitpick. You've seemed to have converted the
current value of the solar cells from milliamps to amps but you forgot to
change the units up there. A, not mA. No big deal, but just to prevent newbie
confusion.
-Brien the TurtleTek
13642 Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:50:27 -0400 Re: You guys disappoint me beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bob Shannon Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
> Ok, well look at correl, and sponges, both sessile (non-moving), so do we not
> call them animals? My goal is just to make something that brings joy, I
> don't care what you call it. Although robot really isnt clearly defined in
> our community, in my mind I would say it its a stretch for most of these
> devices, but they are all important to make a complete beam eco-system.
But 'robot' is well defined, I think the real issue being raised is that this
defintion is being redefined, or revised, and wrongly so. The same argument
applies to beam history and evolution, etc.
I think the disappointment seems to come from the beam community embracing
clearly wrong, or misstated ideas.
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