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Furby Schematics - 0 views

  • Note that the resistor value of the pull-down resistor affects the voltage at pin 3 of the Furby's connector. We used a 1k ohm resistor to make it less sensitive to light (since we're now operating with it open to ambient light).
  • In the above diagram, a 20k ohm resistor is used as the pull-up resistor. You can, however, use any resistor as the pull-up resistor as long as the resistance is high enough to protect the circuit.
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    There are a number of sensors and a motor driver on the Furby. The following is a list of these sensors and their functions.
York Jong

HackFurby.com - Furby Schematics - 0 views

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    Through a lot of hard work by people other than myself, Furby's innner electronics have been fully reverse engineered. To the right is a rendering of the schematic created by Chris Brown. If you've got any corrections, I'm sure he'd be interested.
York Jong

Main Page - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

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    The Wikipedia gives quite a good definition what BEAM robotics is:
York Jong

Building Sensors and Motors for Handy Board - 0 views

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    This document explains how to interface a variety of devices to the Handy Board:
York Jong

Chiu-Yuan Fang's BEAM Walker Page - 0 views

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    Three motor designs are much more able walkers with longer strides and very tall steps. They are also a huge jump in construction complexity from a two motor walker. Walker Ver3.0 is controlled by a six-neuron nervous net. I opted not to go with the 4 neu
York Jong

Chiu-Yuan Fang's Book Store - 0 views

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    These are some books which can help you expand your knowledge in electronics and robotics. I'm selling these to you through the Amazon Associates program where you get the same LOW Amazon price and I get a couple bucks commission which will go straight to
York Jong

Modular robot's wriggles show greater flexibility - 0 views

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    A modular robot that transforms itself into different shapes in order to walk, crawl and clamber up inclines has been demonstrated in the US.
York Jong

BEAM Reference Library -- BEAMbot Pieces - 0 views

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    You'll be making use of a number of components in the creation of your BEAM robot. This section's pages describe the most-common of them.
York Jong

Behavior-based robotics - 0 views

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    Most behavior-based systems are also reactive, which means they use relatively little internal variable state to model the environment. For instance, there is no programming in the robot of what a chair looks like, or what kind of surface the robot is mov
York Jong

飆機器人專賣店的部落格(BLog) - 0 views

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    歡迎你進入機器人的部落格(Blog)日誌, 透過Blog寫下自己製作的心得, 除了自己可以回味, 也可以與他人共享, .. 免費的知識傳播庫 .. "飆機器人專賣店(PlayRobot Store)"不論在商品提供, 設計開發與使
York Jong

LEDs - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • LEDs can be used as photodiodes (tho' their sensitivity is relatively low, so they're only useable this way in very bright conditions). When light is applied to an LED the anode sources current and becomes positive.
York Jong

Photo Diodes - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • To use a photodiode in its photoconductive mode, the photodiode is reverse-biased; the photodiode will then allow a current to flow when it is illuminated.
York Jong

Flashing LED - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • A flashing LED is just an LED with a built-in microcircuit to cause it to flash periodically.
  • Like other LEDs, FLEDs are light-sensitive, and so flash faster in brighter light.
  • Like other LEDs, FLEDs are light-sensitive, and so flash faster in brighter light.
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  • A flashing LED is just an LED with a built-in microcircuit to cause it to flash periodically.
York Jong

Capacitors - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • A device used to store charge in an electrical circuit. A capacitor functions much like a battery, but charges and discharges much more efficiently
  • BEAM robots tend to use capacitors in two, very different roles -- small ones in Nv neurons and solar engines (filter capacitors), and bigger ones as energy storage devices (storage capacitors).
York Jong

Solar Cells - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • Most BEAMbot designs require at least 3 volts from their solar cell(s). This means, of course, that if you buy 0.5 V cells, you need to wire together at least six of them to do the job. This may or may not be something you want to mess with; it may or may not fit with the aesthetic design you're shooting for.
York Jong

1381* - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • 1381s are CMOS voltage-controlled triggers -- these "gate" a source until the voltage is above some "trip" limit, at which point it is allowed onto a third pin.
  • If you can't find 1381s locally, you might have better luck finding its European cousin, the TC-54 -- for details on it, see its data sheet.
York Jong

MC34164-* - BEAM Wiki - 0 views

  • 34164s are undervoltage sensing circuits ("voltage supervisors") designed for use as reset controllers in portable microprocessor based systems. We use them as 3- or 5-volt triggers (here, 3 or 5 fills in the "*" of the part number above), as the heart of the Chloroplast solar engine design.
York Jong

BEAMbot Circuits << BEAM Reference Library - 0 views

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    This section of the BEAM Reference Library is devoted to collecting designs (and links to designs hosted elsewhere) for circuits of interest to BEAMers.
York Jong

How to make Tactile Sensors! - 0 views

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    What you need.... * "2 paper clip * 'Click type' pen * Sheet of paper * Thin piano wire * Soldering iron * Solder * Wire clippers * Tape
York Jong

74*240-based photopopper circuits - 0 views

  • This adapted photodiode is not as sensitive as large area types so C2 may need to be reduced to 0.01uF while the value of R2 and R3 can be increased by a factor of 10.
  • Two leaded phototransistors can also be used but may require extra shielding to reduce light current in the bridge to acceptable levels
  • basic photopopper functions plus reverse -- all on a single chip
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  • The monocore capacitor is for positive feedback for fast switching between the two motors and to slow down and avoid high frequency oscillations.
  • R2 together with C2 limits the maximum frequency of the monocore and motor drivers when the light is bright and the sensors are equally lit
  • R3 together with C2 sets the minimum frequency of the waggle even in the complete dark which is more interesting than twirling endlessly in a circle.
  • Having said that, maxibug is not perfect: it churns its wheels while feeding and does not back out of the feeding station when full. CD MaxiBug v5 uses just a few more parts but has powerful and efficient motor drivers, its motors are off while feeding, and it backs up when full.
  • The CD Maxibug v5 uses just one 74AC240 chip
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