Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02907
To: rix.g@bmts.com
From: jmeers@desconnect.com (Jesse Meers)
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 05:36:47 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Multiple Inputs for Nv neurons
rix.g@bmts.com writes:
>P.S. Has anyone considered making a BEAM robot that morphs like the
>Transformers? That would be neat. It could be walking along, when
>suddenly a
>lake comes up and it changes into a fish/submarine =)
I have given this matter thought a while back. I had made a prototype for
a robot that is a phototpopper, but when the robot senses an incline, or
any harsh terrain, it would turn into a walker. Basically, I had an extra
SE that would dump it's stroed energy into a motor. This motor would then
make two small 600:1 gearmotors come down and initialise the PNC for the
microcore. Later, I had hinged legs that could be folded up more origami
style. It worked surprisingly well, and it looked very nice indeeed,
especially to see it morph back into a phototopopper.
Another idea I have is to make a robot that is photovorus, but when it
captures a robot, it becomes photophibilic(is that how you spell it?)or
negative phototpism, and it takes the captured bot' and brings it to it's
death by bringing it to the darkness, then before it itself will die due
to insufficient light, it has a arm that shoves the other robotout of it's
arms about a good 6-8 inches!!!Then, the bot goes to bieng phototropic
again, and if another bot is trapped in my bot's arms, back to the
darkness again........
BEST,
Jesse Meers
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