[Coco] COCO Robot update.

[Kip Koon]

Steven,
I was going over some old emails from the coco list and found this.  How far
are you along with your Coco Robot?  I'd like to see all the things you've
come up with so far.  It sounds very interesting.  By the way, did you get
your robot's led eyes blinking?  If not, you might try a simple free running
multivibrator circuit.  Basically, it two transistors with the output of
each folded back on the other's input with some caps and resisters I expect.
I last looked at a circuit like that decades ago in high school long before
I ever got involved with digital electronics, so you might want to look it
up on the mighty internet cloud in the sky.  :)  Have fun building your
robot.  :)  I'd love to build a Johnny Five Robot or even a walking bi-ped
type of robot someday.  Happy roboting!
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of haywire666 at aol.com
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:28 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] COCO Robot update.

Coco powered robot has stalled. I have the mobile base going, head is almost
done and basic frame good.
I have some led eyes, does anyone know a simple circuit to ramdonly blink
them?
I may use a basic stamp for this but it seems like overkill. Just want to
randomly blink the led eyes off then back on again. A stand alone animation
that will operate independanty of the coco I suppose. 
I should say I don't want a stanard blinking rate, I want the blinks to
vary. A turn signal flasher won't do. 
If I have to I'll use the basic stamp... But seems there must be a simpler
way I'm not thinking of.
Any thoughts?
All ears,
Steven

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