Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02785
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Ben Ridout RIDOUTGB@MuOhio.Edu
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:18:06 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Batteries...
> > This is the BEAM mailing list right? How would a battery powered
> > bot fit into the BEAM ideology?
>
> About as well as Mark Tilden's famous Walkman, or the SolarBotics
> Scoutwalker. Both are battery-powered, as is the majority of the
> BEAM-tech walker experiments. I gather that you don't approve?
No, I just thought all true BEAM bots should be solar powered. In the
long term we want these bots to do something autonomously, right? At,
least, this is one application. (Personally I find that watching these
things scoot around my room is pretty entertaining in itself...) I
think it is important to consider there might not always be a person
there to change the battery. I would like to build a bot that I could
turn loose and and know it could function on its own. Just some
thoughts...
-Ben Ridout
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