Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01356
To: swilliam@cadvision.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:52:27 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: We are famous!!!
In a message dated 3/7/99 12:42:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
swilliam@cadvision.com writes:
>
> 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.
OK, I'm confused, again. Looky here. This is directly quoted from Solarbotics.
>Creator: Mark Tilden
>Found at: Solarbotics
>Bot name: VBUG 1.5
>Description:
>"Walkman" is literally constructed from the remains of four walkmans, one
oven >timer, a scrapped pager and a microcore (pat.).
Is there more than one Walkman?
Sincerely,
Jim
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