Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03461
To: Bumper314@aol.com
From: "Nigel Joyce" nigel.joyce@qr.com.au
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:41:00 +1000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: In the Works?Bicore Hextile Photovores
Are you talking about $100 for the BEAM ants or the Programmable CPU Ants
that were at the end of the Link posted yesterday?
Otherwise I will make you a couple of BEAM ants for $100 buck each
Blue Skies
---Buzz---
>
> > Gold, shez! I remeber BEAM FAQ saying some hextiles cost up to $9 each!
>
> Well if $9 is as expensive as they get, Then sign me up. That would put my
> grand total of producing a photovore to $24. Not bad. And look at those
Beam
> Ants, i would pay $100 for one of those, maybe even more...but i do know
that
> not everyone is in the financial situation as I am, so maybe we shouldnt
be
> modeling our stuff after a man that has unlimited resources?? We are so
far
> behind what he is working on, so we might just try to break off. Why even
do
> PCBs. Why not have custom chips? Everything already in it, all that sticks
> out are the motor outputs? To expensive? well maybe not a specialized chip
> but somewhere along those lines. Is this defeating the purpous of the E in
> BEAM? any thoughts?
>
> Steve
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