{"id":170,"date":"2012-03-05T21:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T02:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-03-06T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:17:37","slug":"solar-spinner-beam-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Solar Spinner BEAM Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing some BEAM bot work on the side. Nothing exciting but I wanted to keep making them to get some practice\/experience for future projects with solar circuits. This is basically a replica of the solar spinner thats posted\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Solar Spinner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smfr.org\/robots\/spinner.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It uses a <a title=\"Miller Solar Engine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beam-wiki.org\/wiki\/Miller_Solar_Engine\" target=\"_blank\">Miller Solar Engine<\/a> with a little modification.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Added a timing capacitor (10uF) between pin 2 and 3 of the voltage trigger. Seems to work a lot better now.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-170 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=171'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1203-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=172'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1207-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=173'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1210-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=176'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1214-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=177'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1215-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=178'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ImageSE_1381_mse-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JLAiMU-NO_U\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Solar Spinner BEAM Bot\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Solar Spinner BEAM Bot\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-03-05T21:56:24-05:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/JLAiMU-NO_U\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLAiMU-NO_U\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"276\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"490\" \/>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLAiMU-NO_U?modestbranding=1&fs=0&rel=0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing some BEAM bot work on the side. Nothing exciting but I wanted to keep making them to get some practice\/experience for future projects with solar circuits. This is basically a replica of the solar spinner thats posted\u00c2\u00a0here. It uses a Miller Solar Engine with a little modification. Update: Added a timing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}