I see a lot of ir rumours on the list i use a thing that looks like a flat led with four legs and only needs an ir led to work. It modulates, demodulates and...
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Bryan Yeung
ba_alazmon
May 1, 2002 12:54 pm
I will be traveling from Ontario to BC this summer and I was wondering if there are any BEAMish places of interest that I should stop at along the way. Any...
25888
Bryan Yeung
ba_alazmon
May 1, 2002 12:56 pm
Hi, When explaining the operations of inverters and other chips, what are the terms "high" and "low" defined to mean? The best I can come up with is above and...
25889
xycon_3
May 1, 2002 1:29 pm
... "High" means 5v and "Low" means 0v. So a bicore is this: (Where "__" is "Low" and "--" is "High") __|--|__|--|__|--|__|--|__ ....Eh.... you get the idea...
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Danny Broers
danny.broers@...
May 1, 2002 1:36 pm
Well, i have MSN too and I'd love to add some BEAMERS to my contacts, but I guess it'd be difficult to find you online, 'cause we're on opposite sides of the...
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Danny Broers
danny.broers@...
May 1, 2002 1:36 pm
Bas, Great idea, but isn't this very much like what solarbotics.net is trying to do? I mean collecting tutorials, cataloguing bots, etc... Maybe we should...
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Bruce Robinson
bruce_and_barb
May 1, 2002 2:22 pm
... High = Vcc = supply voltage. Low = Gnd = zero volts. Bruce...
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Bruce Robinson
bruce_and_barb
May 1, 2002 2:33 pm
... I don't think there's any debate. My comment was strictly about analog circuits. When you work with analog, you are forced to figure out how to keep your...
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conan_thee_librarian
conan_thee_l...
May 1, 2002 3:09 pm
Danny, ... Eh... Don't know that restructuring is all that necessary. The "new" BEAM From the Ground up (http://bftgu.solarbotics.net) is pretty much a BEAM...
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Pat Nicklas
pn0853
May 1, 2002 4:07 pm
Touché, Tom. I see your point. Perhaps I was a bit ignorant by being so quick to disregard Swatch's lame attempt at revolutionizing time as the world knows...
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dmancini
dmancini@...
May 1, 2002 5:57 pm
Hi, just another note: in my working experience, high level for TTL components can be assumed in the range between 2.4volt to 5volt and low level from ground...
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Wilf Rigter
wilf_nv
May 1, 2002 6:09 pm
It may be unfair to suggest that microcontroller design encourages sloppy habits. A single chip microcontroller circuit is often a physically "simpler" ...
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Wilf Rigter
wilf_nv
May 1, 2002 7:13 pm
High and Low are logic levels greater or less than the minimum and maximum "trigger" threshold voltage levels of the logic family. For 74HCxx, the minimum...
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Bryan Yeung
ba_alazmon
May 1, 2002 7:15 pm
Thanks to everyone who replied. Things are much simpler when I am sure high and low are defined as Vcc and Gnd respectively. Bryan ...
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Bryan Yeung
ba_alazmon
May 1, 2002 7:33 pm
So it doesn't just mean Vcc and Gnd? This is the definition I have been using. Thanks for confirming it. Bryan ... ...
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tocatchasnark
May 1, 2002 9:01 pm
I would like to thank everybody who has sent me tips and infomation about building a Butterfly beam robot. I am waiting for the parts to arrive through the...
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Ori
ori_barbut
May 1, 2002 9:11 pm
... I know that there's nothing that one can do about it, but I hate for waiting to get parts. Once you order, you want to start building! There are a lot of ...
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Sathe Dilip
sathe_dilip@...
May 1, 2002 9:52 pm
Read about the challenges of duplicating insect flight & so on. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/robotics/2001/1/MicroWarfare/ Dilip...
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Jérôme Demers
robomaniac_2001
May 1, 2002 10:59 pm
Hey I saw this COOL gallery of ascii, and it is wonderful what people can do whit letters and symbols. http://www.afn.org/~afn39695/bger.htm ...
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Gord Mitchell
gord_1812
May 1, 2002 11:30 pm
Hey Ori I'm working on a matter transmitter now but the bandwidth is too small. Even a resistor would take 3- 15 days to get to you. :P Gord ... ...
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rob
mantid@...
May 1, 2002 11:40 pm
Here's an ASCII image of a symet: http://phasmid.prr-seattle.com/symet.htm...
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Jérôme Demers
robomaniac_2001
May 1, 2002 11:55 pm
NO way, this guy is a MANIAC check out this http://users.inetw.net/~mullen/ascii.htm This really true ART Jérôme Demers "Insectroïdes" the next generation...
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Frankendaddy
May 2, 2002 1:46 am
Fit like? BEAM chaps and bird(s)! Whilst browsing my latest Jameco catalogue, I came across this little thingy. ...
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Pat Nicklas
pn0853
May 2, 2002 2:39 am
Hehe... looks like you're still sending out those crazy .jpg files, Danny. Never got that fixed, eh? Maybe it's time to update your antivirus software or...
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Bryan Yeung
ba_alazmon
May 2, 2002 2:53 am
Hello, I still cannot get the legs of my walker to centre properly and I'm really not sure what else to try. Here is what I've tried so far: 1) Swapping...
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yuh7h
May 2, 2002 3:07 am
a trimpot should help, but i don't know to what degree but instead of using to balanced caps or resistors(why don't we have a shorter name for resistors?) you...
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Matt
bladesnitz
May 2, 2002 4:27 am
Actually, I know of an old old program called gif2ascii or something... it would convert gifs to simple ascii images through some simple magic... I dont know...
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dkbovaird@...
lanlite
May 2, 2002 6:23 am
These devices are convenient when you have a lot of combinational (and's, or's, inverting or non-inverted signals, or clocked outputs) logic. Most BEAM designs...
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ba_alazmon
May 2, 2002 5:40 pm
Yeah, I think I am going to try putting a fairly small (100-300 kohm) resistor in series with the "short" side and see if that can fix it. Also, one unrelated...
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Craig Maynard (jcm in...
dr_bitbucket
May 2, 2002 9:30 pm
Only one week to the WCRG, folks... get those solar panels polished! Our schedule is up at http://www.robotgames.com/2002_schedule.htm . Hope to see you...
