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  Automatic feeding.
 
Has anyone worked up a system where a Hanyboard bot monitors it's battery level and then when it starts to get low it rolls over to a charging device and "plugs itself in"? It seems like this should be doable but I don't think I've seen any (...) (27 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: Automatic feeding.
 
(...) One way that I did this was to steal an idea from the railroad world. (...) In my case I put a conductor (a wire) around the outside of my two drive wheels. At the top of the wheels was a 'brush' (which was a simple spring loaded contact) and (...) (27 years ago, 15-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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