Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00105
To: mvlatko@mia.os.CARNet.hr, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:15:10 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: the first bot
Well, as a recent "ex-newbie" (meaning I'm not new to BEAM but I still don't
know the more advanced concepts), I would suggest that you not worry too much
about the microcore or walkers. Walkers are not for newbies, no-siree. I would
suggest you understand the SE (solar engine) and build a solarRoller as your
first bot. My first bot was actually a photovore (photopopper from SB, I
thought of solarrollers as pretty boring) and I found it to be easy to build
and the circuit easy to understand. I repeat, don't stress out too much about
the microcore, there are people that have built many walkers and even they
don't really understand it. Work on photovores, Symets and solarRollers until
you learn to do the basics (soldering, mechanics) perfectly then move on to
more advanced things and learn to do _those_ perfectly, repeat.
Hope this helps,
-TurtleTek
"Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
do not know it. This is knowledge."
- K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)
In a message dated 2/1/99 10:03:16 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
mvlatko@mia.os.CARNet.hr writes:
> Hi there,
> I'm REALLY new in this, like 3 weeks or so. I mean, I did a lot of
> electronics but I'm not sure that I completely understand the BEAM robotics
> idea!!!
> I would be gratefull if someone could send me complete schematics and plans
> for mechanical part of an BEAM bot. If possibles some photos of actual
design
> too, would be even better.
> I'm not sure I understand the meaning of term 'microcore' or 'neural net'.
> If I got it right neural net is consisted of one very simple chip (like 74xx
)
> and few other elements, or what. How and where do you connect that neural
> net circuit on the bot? Can anyone send me the schemmatics of one most
> usually used neural nets?
> I will stop here because there are too many questions I wanna ask, and I
> want to be sure that I understood everything really well.
>
> Thanks...
> Vlatko
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