Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00982
To: Jarrell Clark Jclark76@bellsouth.net
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:30:08 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Overextension
>> 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).
>
> Don't feel bad. I'm not new at this and I still have problems. You just get
> to understand more to solve it yourself. or scream obscenities at it and
> come back later.
Oh, I don't feel bad. I mean getting them to work in theory. I'm more scared
of the soldering. I can't get anything to work; when I solder one end of a
wire, the other end (which I already soldered) comes unsoldered. Maybe I
shouldn't use copper wire, or maybe I should use a cooler soldering iron. I
dunno.
> I kinda wonder if a "superior inteligence"(couldn't be me. Maybe a PIC) is
> needed to keep the robot focused(Mine suffer from ADD) Now that I think on
> it. the Typical BEAMbot is not that bright. Most move untill they hit
> something and move another way.
> Is there anyway to keep a BEAMbot doing a specific task? not searching for
> food but something else?
Well, they aren't intended to be bright. They're intended to survive. At
least, that's what got me hooked =)
I think that it could be done with a uController. I'm not sure how, though,
but I'll work on it.
I've got an EPROM that I got out of a C64 printer. If I can find an eraser
and reprogrammer for it, I might be able to use it, if that's possible. I
gotta find out the storage and that stuff.
I gotta go real soon now.
> I did do some further thinking maybe set the BEAM ants in a
> supercomputer......
Heh heh heh heh heh...
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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