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Message #02923



To: Jesse Meers jmeers@desconnect.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 15:50:22 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Multiple Inputs for Nv neurons


> 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
Very neat! Do you have any pictures of it?
And if anyone has been wondering about why I've been asking strange
questions about multiple neuron inputs and transformers, well, you can rest
assured that I'm plotting something. I'd like to know if it's going to be
possible first, though, so I can experiment a little before posting it to
the list. But one other question, while I'm at it (okay, two):

1) Does anyone know of a product that you could seal a container with, for
instance a plastic container with a circuit inside? So you could put the
circuit for your amphibious walker inside, then seal it and never have to
worry about water leaking in?

2) Why are microcores always connected in a loop, instead of in, say, a web
of sorts, with plenty of interconnections?

Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law

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