Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01719
To: alt-beam@egroups.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:38:58 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Machina Speculatrix
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Jean auBois wrote:
> Speaking of which, look at the soldering iron Grey Walter used in this
> photograph of him working:
>
> http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/fig.ch2/Elsie.150.jpg
Looks much like the power irons I used in the days of tubes :)
Rather impressive, a small mobile robot using just two tetrodes.
Very few BEAM `bots could claim to match that combination of
interesting behaviour and circuit simplicity...
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