Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03725
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "John A. deVries II" zozzles@lanl.gov
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:14:27 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: In answer to Dave
At 04:32 PM 5/25/99 , JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
> I will jump in here one more time, even though I said I would not.
>
> > Yes, he does. But if it wasn't for his original work on his
Photopopper, we'd have no kit based on it.
Although this may be irrelevant, I'm quite certain that the use of the 1381
to make the "super solar engine" was Andrew Miller's innovation. Also, the
photopopper I made from the kit that Paul Argo gave me just after the 1996
Workshop clearly shows "AM" and "9/95" which I suppose means that Mr.
Miller drew that particular artwork (see also:
BEAM Heretics: BEAM People: Andrew Miller: Printed Circuit Boards
on the Heretics site which contains a scan of the Gold Board Photopopper
1.2) Furthermore, all of this stuff is based on Jonathan Connell's
original Photovore which was obviously developed prior to the 1988 magazine
article written for Omni. For more on that robot, which is still being
sold, see:
http://www.pcrealm.net/~johuco/photov.html
Connell was one of Rod Brooks' more productive students when Dr. Brooks was
initially introducing the concept of subsumption. For what it is worth,
Connell's Photovore in fact implements subsumption and does so without the
use of a microprocessor.
Original work??? Perhaps on the less efficient solarengine, but . . .
Zoz
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John A. deVries II
zozzles@lanl.gov
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