Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00925
To: Jarrell Clark Jclark76@bellsouth.net
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:44:20 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Overextension
> My problem with hives is that they would need a common goal some sort of
> structure. Seting the sensors for stimuli woundn't be hard(you know what I
> mean) but what would it do a task.
Well, I'm working on that =)
First, I think that having the drones solar-powered is a good thing. Then,
since the hive needs to be refueled, they can take excess electricity to the
hive and recharge it. I'll give them large capacitors in the PM1 solarengine
(I decided to use that after all). After survival of themselves and the
hive, they'll clear their territory of whatever obstacles they can move, and
then maybe try and take over bots from the next hive so they can have more
drones to do the tasks that the hive sets out. If I can get all that to
work, I'll add another task, like maybe sorting ping-pong balls from the
rest of the debris. But that is a fair bit off, as I'm still trying to get
my circuit to work (well, it ain't that easy being green).
> Predator and prey have tasks but that doesn't interest me.
It interests ME, though =)
> Maybe set it up link an Anthill. Workers to move ping-pong balls or
> something.
Maybe they could stick the ping-pong balls into the hole. That doesn't
interest me, though =)
> Maybe BEAM soccer.
Weird! That'd be neat, though. I might give it a shot eventually.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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