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Re: Power
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:04:29 GMT
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Original-From:
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Colin Barnard <colin@prospero.u=Spamcake=-net.com>
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Richard wrote:<snip, stuff deleted>
> Also..I watched Robots Rising on the discovery channel.
> Cool stuff...
> Has any out there doing any thing with analog robotics
> using only
> transistors and the like?
Ah, that takes me back a bit. I built one in the late 60's
from plans in Practical Electronics, used about 40
transistors and mechano bits. Its collision avoidance sensor
was based around an OCP71 photo transistor mounted in an old
Pifco torch reflector. It wandered around on its little
motors and avoided bumping into things. Robotics has
certainly come a long way in the last 30 years hasn't it?
Or if you want to go back even further check out Grey
Walter's Turtles, circa 1950, a couple of valves (tubes to you
transatlantic types) and they demonstrated primitive behaviours.
Colin
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| Hello everyone. I finally got everything cool with the Handyboard I'm using in terms of the software and loading it and getting all connections right. The only problem now is that the motors on my little robot pretty much stop after maybe 45 seconds (...) (27 years ago, 17-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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