18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
4:01 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Actually, the beams used for the BBC Buggy (which is of course F-T) are
metal of some flavour rather than plastic, so they've been around that
Those are the ones I am refering to.
Point is, much of my F-T is well over 30 years old now, so the BBC Buggy
is what I'd call 'modern' :-)
Real real
nerds have grey and red colored Fischer-Technik.
What other coulour is there? I've seen black gears (but most of mine are
the old red ones), and they even have aluminium alloy beams I think now. way for a good 20 years now. (I assume you mean that
the beams were
originally plastic? I've never seen that much of the stuff around)
Oriignally there were just the blocks (30mm long * 15mm * 15mm) and the
half-size blocks (15mm cube). They were all grey nylon.
Your comments make me wonder what the history of the buggy was though -
did it start out as a F-T kit in its own right, or was it a joint effort
AFAIK it was never an F-T product. F-T never used stepper motors, and if
they had they would not have fitted them with screws through the grouves
of the blocks.
Of course it uses F-T components (wheels, chain deive, the LDR, the
microswitches for the bumpers and all the structural bits are stock F-T,
The motors, electronics, barcode sensor and 3rd wheel are not). I think
it was a totally 3rd party design by somebody who recognised that F-T
parts would be ideal to make a small, hackable, robot.
between F-T / Acorn / the BBC and designed
specifically with the BBC
Micro in mind?
(from memory options to use them with RML hardware existed too, though)
That does not suprise me.
-tony