Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02498
To: "'Nicholas Smith'" nik@resourcekt.co.uk
From: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:14:51 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Beam genome - Stop talking, Start working!
The genome is alive! Good start Nicholas,
I assume this information and the list you are compiling will be in the
public domain (no copyright right?).
If so then: send entries to mailto:genome@resourcetk.co.uk and let your
unique Beam type designs and/or unique handbuild creations become part of
Beam History.
There can't be more than 50 truly unique designs or unique adaptations and
probably no more than 100 - 200 handbuild Beam type bots all together.
Remember only the first design/creation of each type and significantly
mutations qualify (let that be a challenge to you!).
Putting together a "photopopper" kit is fun and a good learning experience
but doesn't really add to Beam "evolution".
If your creation/design is added to the Beam genome now, I guess you too
will be regarded as one of the early pioneers of robotics by someone
(perhaps a robot) looking at this list in the year 2100.
Musings..
Inside the home-dome, looking out over the changing Martian landscape with
Ares Walkers in the distance tilling and tera-forming the soil, you tell
your grandkids :
" When I was 14 years old, I had this dream of creating simple robot bugs
that respond to their environment......."
Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
tel: (604)590-7493
fax: (604)590-3411
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Smith [SMTP:nik@resourcekt.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 1:33 AM
> To: BEAM Mailing List
> Subject: Beam genome - Stop talking, Start working!
>
> Alot of people keep going on about how good the BEAM genome thang would be
> really great but very few people seem to want to take on this task.
>
> Well I think its worth doing even if it is a big task so I'm going to
> start
> at the begining and create a BEAM evolution "Time-Line" type web page but
> I'm going to need alot of help!
>
> Soo, anyone that thinks there BEAM robot/circuit/idea is a key step in the
> the BEAM time-line should mail me with the following information:
>
> Type: robot, circuit, idea, etc... (i will use the word 'thing' from now
> on)
>
> Name: what you call your thing.
>
> Date: when you thing was created.
>
> Your Name: ...go figure.
>
> Link/URL: a link to your or anyone else's webpage that has a picture or
> infomation on your thing.
>
> Description: a _SHORT!_ description of your thing.
>
> Of cause, where this project goes depends on the kind of information I get
> and If I get enough of it to compile a usefull time-line. ie, It would be
> no
> good even starting it if I have no information on Mark's first ever BEAM
> experements or say, the first Photopopper. Also any other advice on
> compiling this list would be great help.
>
> Please send all info to genome@resourcekt.co.uk.
>
> Cheers.
> Nik.
>
> p.s.
> Dave Hrynkin wrote "All I'm saying is there's no need for this project
> when
> things are quite adequate the way they are now." I dissagree. I think BEAM
> will evolve much faster if BEAMers are not sitting arround in there
> workshops "re-inventing the wheel". Looking at what other people have done
> and how they solved problems is a great way of speeding up the BEAM
> learning
> curve. Anyone?
>
>
>
>
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