Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00840
To: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:33:27 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Overextension
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, dennison wrote:
---8<---[ a *very* nice speech ]---8<---
> There is a great deal more that goes into robotics than even just
> the schematics and the parts. As I'm sure people have noticed
> robot's need the builder to take into account ton's of things,
> from the resistance of the FLUX, to the battery charge levels, to
> how the thing is supposed to acctually WORK.
Don't forget the mechanics. Most `really interesting' robots fail
at the mechanical level, making the fancy brain irrelevant. Our
spirit is willing, but the motors are...
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