Little Ricci - Construction of Little Ricci
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Here is the chassis after completed frame construction and painting.

It is about this time we were struggling with converting Neutronics to Electronics in order to tell the stepping motor what voltage to apply.

After many failed attempts to solve that problem we finally came up with a stepped sampler that took short samples of the Neutronics output, used them as triggers to indicate how many steps the motor should turn and it worked fine.

Later, we found a far easier method to accomplish conversion, which Dr. Spencer speaks about, in his NPN PNP BIPOLAR paper.

The large 'red' battery powers both motion motors only. Processing was accomplished with a nine volt battery.