Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #01359



To: JVernonM@aol.com
From: Sharon swilliam@cadvision.com
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:52:35 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: We are famous!!!


nope, i am pretty sure there is only one. probably misinformation on the
part of Guiness. What walking bot uses only one motor?
jeremy williams


At 03:52 PM 3/7/99 EST, JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
>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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