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Message #03453
To: Dennison dennlill@buffnet.net, Evan Dudzik evandude@yahoo.com,
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:33:25 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: In the Works?Bicore Hextile Photovores
At 04:53 PM 5/20/1999 , Dennison wrote:
>I know Dave's working on some HExtiles right now as a long term project,
>although I will mention that in the pastI belive it was Dave who said
>solarbotics *wouldn't* make hextiles because there wasn't enough demand. Am
>I right about that one Dave?
Yup, that was once true, but we're looking forwards to the next LANL
workshop. It'll be great robot fodder.
>As for selling the tiles, I guess I'll have to talk to the powers that be,
>first. Now that Dave's seriously going forward on this one this may not be
>so easy. As it would be direct and blatent competition. And what would be
>the difference between the boards? Technically, they would be the same.
Don't count on it. What you may have on the PCB's, I may not have and vice
versa. Ever count how many types of PCB shapes and types Mark uses? There's
quite a few...
Don't let the fact that we're starting work on it discourage you. As long
as what you're doing is cleared by Mark, don't worry about us.
>Although I'm sure Dave could get a nice intro written by Mark T himself
>though.
Not very likely!
-Dave
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"Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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