Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00481
To: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:42:59 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: hmmm...i wonder which subject
Ahhh! I've seen a microcore or bicore driven bot! I don't want to be on one
of those things, even with a saddle! Hey, come to think of it, that gives me
an idea for the BEAM amusement park idea: a BEAM rodeo! The way those things
pitch, if we could add some random thing so it would buck differently each
time, we could make it! Weird!
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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>From: Wilf Rigter
>To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: RE: hmmm...i wonder which subject
>Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999, 3:44 PM
>
>
> I already mentioned BIcoreCYCLES: walkers about 4-5 ft high with a saddle,
> stirrups, and bridle that you can ride through rough terrain (like a camel
> or elephant). The bridle controls a microcore with proportional speed,
> turning, and reverse and big antenna "feelers" for collision detection. If
> you release the bridle your walker stops. I imagine herds of people out for
> a "walk". To ride off into the sunset with everybody else just set the auto
> pilot on "phototropic" and sit back and follow the herd, your walker's
> "feelers" gently tapping along the bumper to bumper walker caravan. Ahhh!
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