Hello group, I am making a porject for my SOSE class; a energy effiecient home. I am going to have fans and lights that actually work, and i am going to run...
hello group, 2 messages in one day! my brain has been ticking:> I have thought of using 4 individual bicores on the 74HC240 to run 8 leds (4 of them normal...
I came across this more-or-less by accident (very small pun...) There has been some warnings on this list about the batteries mentioned in the >Subject line -...
... Oh yeah, that's a fun one. I spent some time working on some cell simulator software for Motorola. They actually have a "Phone is on fire" message in the...
Two LM555's can be used as a pretty decent (and cheap!) motor diver for most beam type motors. Hint: a LM556 is a dual 555 in on package. I think you could ...
Recently I was wondering how many people use the whisker sensors on their bots as opposed to IR or some other form of sensors. It seems like when ever I make a...
http://www.yoredale.uklinux.net/electronics/nicads.htm ... From: The Walker To: beam@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:00 AM Subject: [beam]...
Thanks for the site firstly, So in theory, each cell should be discharged to 1v per cell, so could I, as a more crude method, could I just put an LED that...
Hello all I just wanted to announce that Bug'n'Bots is hosting another Buildfest June 12th at it's store in Brampton, Ontario. For more information please...
Hello everyone, this is somewhat BEAM related as I my project will have many uses. I hope you can let the blatant commercial nature of this email slide, since...
... I am no expert from what I have read: For a used battery pack with unknown history, check each cell voltage seperately. If the cell voltages are not equal...
I'd use them if they were easily adjustable, it would be most useful if they could be adjusted to different frequencies. I've got a moderately large robot...
I came across this while doing a search for robot research simmilar to Grey's Turtles http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/ The Book Mind And Machines looks...
First of two answers to the second of two messages. You would need a variable speed 34Nv core with a big PNC. Since each Nv output stays on for its own R/C...
Just got word from our favourite roboticist: First item: http://www.robosapienpress.co.uk ... Looks like the 'Sapien is live, and on the shelves (in the UK and...
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All that talk of microprocessors is a bit like digital mind candy creeping into our BEAM low tech diet. Not that there is anything wrong if you want to fill...
Hello Group, During the discusion about the swarm bots, someone suggested using a micro rc car to build the bots. The nice thing about rc cars is that they...
Forgot to attach the schematic sorry ===== Juan Cubillo CostaRican Beamer!!! http://costaricabeam.solarbotics.net/ __________________________________ Do you...
... 28 "secret functions"? And what would those be? I presume they aren't in the instructions. ... Oh well, flames and stuff. Donning asbestos coveralls and...
Your right I also am not that impressed. ... 28 "secret functions"? And what would those be? I presume they aren't in the instructions. ... Oh well, flames and...
I made the smart head and I would like to add ni-cad batteries to it. I remember seeing something about adding a diode to the solar cell. Where would I add it,...
where did u see that there are "28 secret functions" ? yeah i've had robosapien for about hmm lets see, since he was released in the US about a month ago i...
... Mark says this 1 minute and 5 seconds (or thereabouts) in the main video on: http://www.wowwee.com/robosapien/launch/index.html which is what the first...
hey there it was. hmmm. i wonder what they are ? do you know ? Now I'm interested. I'm gonna be playing with him nonstop till i find some secret functions....
... Well they are adjustable but it requires changing one of the surface mount resistors and/or capacitors. I can do this for you or if you can solder surface...