At 06:33 PM 10/23/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>At 07:20 PM 10/23/00 -0400, John Mullan wrote:
>>Don,
>>
>>I'm not sure if this is the kind of info you can supply.......
>>
>>In the hobby robot I am working on, I would like to incorporate an
>>inductively coupled charger that it can park itself near when it needs a
>>boost.  Do you have any info for this?
>


A guy named Grey Walter built one of these many years ago - before
anyone still alive here today was born. A little mobile robot with
a 2-celled brain, that ran from light when the battery was fully
charged and sought out light when the battery was low. Just came
up and plugged itself in a socket. Since a PIC has more than 2
brain cells, it should be able to do better than a 1940's flip-flop.

I found 953 links to GW on google.com:

http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/gwonline.html

- danM
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