Well I have been experimenting with the Miller Solar Engine circuit. I hooked one up to a 3.7 volt Li-Ion battery and it seems to have actually charged it to...
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arno_brosi
Dec 30, 2011 3:36 am
You must refer to this circuit: http://www.solarbotics.net/library/circuits/se_t1_mse.html If you use the other one ,I think you need to look at the pinout...
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M.
infinitenows
Jan 17, 2012 9:44 pm
Are you guys having trouble logging on to Solarbotics.net? Anyone know what's going on?...
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arno_brosi
Feb 26, 2012 7:48 pm
And that is the one where there no messages at all in a month.So,I'm wondering what everybody is up to.I hope it is being busy building BEAM projects.Let's...
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jabmechtech
Feb 26, 2012 8:31 pm
... I am in school full time and working on my electronics technician and Biomedical certification. I have only built two robots in the past year. "build your...
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J Wolfgang Goerlich
jwgoerlich_us
Feb 27, 2012 10:38 am
Hello Arno, Last weekend, my daughter and I hacked a CD-ROM into a coin toss game. This past weekend, she built the Solarbotics BeetleBot kit. And you? What is...
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Frankendaddy
Feb 27, 2012 11:06 am
I joined a musical ensemble and have been using all my robot time to learn songs. :(...
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J Wolfgang Goerlich
jwgoerlich_us
Feb 27, 2012 11:38 am
Hi Frankendaddy, A musical ensemble? Sounds fun. Have you seen this guy's work? http://www.youtube.com/user/bd594 He used retro computer gear and robotics to...
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arno_brosi
Feb 27, 2012 4:56 pm
Hello Wolfgang, thanks for the reply,and Frankendaddy and Jab too,I've built a few Magbot pendulums,Pummers and am determined to finally build a working...
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yahmez_alpha
Feb 28, 2012 12:51 am
... Well... since you asked, I built these two guys last year: My first robot, a Bristlebot / photopopper: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/24447 My second, a...
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 4, 2012 6:22 am
Hello all! This would be my first post, so I figured it would best be spent introducing myself! (It should be noted that I'm new to this whole Yahoo Groups...
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ecraib
Mar 4, 2012 1:47 pm
Touring this project was a great way to start the day. I appreciate your concern with beam aesthetics! :-) Emma...
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sweetriffs44
Mar 4, 2012 3:16 pm
Wow dude nice robots, and nice cars! I'm very impressed that you knew how to wire two 555's as inverters! I can't do that, all I can do is follow a diagram,...
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arno_brosi
Mar 4, 2012 9:14 pm
Hello, and welcome to the group! Great looking bots you have there.I especially like your 8 capacitor symet.I have to steal that idea and build one myself one...
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 5, 2012 12:50 pm
Thanks a lot! I think aesthetics is one of the things that makes BEAM so amazing! A box on wheels with all the functionality in the world is cool, but a bot...
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 5, 2012 12:56 pm
Thank you very much! I can't take too much credit, the 555 timer idea came straight from BEAM wiki. I don't really know what goes on inside the circuits, but...
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 5, 2012 1:01 pm
Thanks for the warm welcome! Thanks for the kind words and feel free to use the Symet design! It might actually have worked better if I had used the EZSE v.1...
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Sweet Riffs
sweetriffs44
Mar 6, 2012 4:52 pm
Wow I would love to get the schematic on that since 555's are so readily available, although I do have some 74ac240's and others laying around. If you can post...
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 6, 2012 10:05 pm
Good morning! Thanks for the reply! I actually have a schematic I drew up in LTSPiceIV (it doesn't actually work in a simulation sense, but it is a clean...
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David Buckley
robots42
Mar 7, 2012 1:38 am
There is a new free site https://www.circuitlab.com/ which does online circuit simulations. On the main page there is a list of Quick-Start Circuits and the...
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 12, 2012 2:23 pm
Howdy all! So, I've got another walker planned but before I get on with the fun part of building the thing, I really wanted to wrap my head around nv/nu cores....
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nakazoto_fc
Mar 13, 2012 9:18 am
Alrighty! Time to reply to my own message! I think I may have figured it a bit out. I'm not entirely sure how I missed this page ...
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David Buckley
robots42
Mar 13, 2012 2:33 pm
... Why and how can this happen? Its input is held high by the second gate, there is nothing that could cause it to change. DAvid ... From: nakazoto_fc To:...
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gord_1812
Mar 31, 2012 12:07 am
Hi All Haven't been around for a while but have to share this . ...
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Patrick Pietruszko
patrickp200
Mar 31, 2012 1:52 pm
I came across this circuit online: http://robobugs.solarbotics.net/Dangerbot.html First of all is there a difference between red and green FLED's other than...
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J Wolfgang Goerlich
jwgoerlich_us
Mar 31, 2012 10:54 pm
Hello Patrick, There is a slight voltage difference between red and green. The circuit runs around 3-4V. I have not seen any videos. Wolfgang...
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J Wolfgang Goerlich
jwgoerlich_us
Mar 31, 2012 10:55 pm
Hello Gord, Long time, no see! Are you still doing reenactments? Anything planned for this coming summer? Nice find on the blocks. Wolfgang...
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Tom Gray
graybeard2ca
Apr 1, 2012 3:12 am
Yes, I think that sort of integration was the idea of the hextiles. The cubelets seem to prevent a fairly simple, manipulative and intuitive. But at $520 for...
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Tom Gray
graybeard2ca
Apr 1, 2012 3:48 am
I spent a little time on the cubelets site, and for what you pay the blocks are extremely limited. To reverse drive direction, you need to unplug the drive...
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nakazoto_fc
Apr 7, 2012 4:16 pm
Howdy all! For my next project, I'm kind of in a mental pickle, haha. I have two signals coming out of my NV net. I would like to invert one of the signals...
