Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01354
To: "Keagan Schpfer" keaganschopfer@hotmail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Sharon swilliam@cadvision.com
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 10:34:55 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: We are famous!!!
yeh, i saw that a while ago. I was disapointed to see that Mr. Tildens name
was not mentioned though (only LANL) and no picture =^(
also, it doesn't describe it very well, oh well.
this is what is said,
CHEAPEST ROBOT
Walkman, a 5-inch robot,
was built from the wreckage
of a sony walkman for $1.75
at the Los Alamos National
laboratory in 1996. In tests,
it struggled to get free when
its legs were held, without
being programmed to do so
and without making the same
movement twice.
-jeremy williams
>Well, Walkman is. That bot that M. W. Tilden made broke the reccord for
>the cheapest robot. I was reading through the Book Of World Reccords,
>and there was Walkman. Just thought I would say that.
>
>Also, is there a way you can detect when the ucore is changing it's
>pattern? I mean when the motors are using up more current, where does
>that change take plce? I was just thinking about that idea for stacking
>thoes 245's and enabling only one of thoes when you need it.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Keagan Schopfer
>
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