Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02941
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 18:11:02 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Multiple Inputs for Nv neurons
A web... Try looking at the interconnections in lobster. Even though
there are two loops, they are attached in a "webby" layout, and that
alone is cool (even if Mark T himself said Lobster realy was a
disapointment performance wise). I don't necesarily use loops. MECI IV M
and Spyder both use chains of Nvs. I have a lot of other ideas, but have
not actualy done anything. Spyder is my curent project. I'll be working
on MECI IV M next, and then maybe throw some turbot and head action into
the mix! :)
George Rix wrote:
>
> > 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
--
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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