On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 12:17, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Sorry for the OT post...feel free to hit delete now, if desired. > > Well, it's a lazy Sunday afternoon, and I came into the office to do a > bit of soldering work on some of my old BattleBot motor controllers. > Mike will probably remember these...they're from "Twister"
Charles, I remember well, but I call them the 20+ lb. monsters. ;-) > , and one is > the controller I blew up by dropping a screw onto it about an hour > before my first match. I thought that was both of our faults. I didn't put my finger over the hole, and you dropped the screw. > Anyway, what ever becomes of old BattleBots that have outlived their > prime? Well, around here, the motors (two heavy-duty industrial Baldor > DC Servo motors) and controllers become the guts of a parade float :-) Interesting. Are you still working on the infrared targeting idea for BattleBots? > Anyway, right now, there are just a bunch of pieces strewn out on my > garage floor, but as things get more interesting, I'll take some photos > and post them online. I'll probably even send some in for the > desktoplinux.com essay contest (they say a picture's worth a thousand > words :-) I look forward to seeing them. :-) -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
