Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04023
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Ed Jones Jr." sargon@gte.net
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 04:02:49 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Flathead(as shown in solarbotics)
Dennison ,
Maybe I should know , but I don't - just what are pummers-did I miss
something on the list ?
Ed Jones
sargon@gte.net
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> From: Dennison
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Flathead(as shown in solarbotics)
> Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 3:32 AM
>
>
> Ah, mark was getting fancy on this one. No, I don't think there's any
> 'emergent behaviors' for this bot. It looks pretty simple and standard if
> you ask me. Sure there aren't any bicores, but with a little tuning, you
can
> run a microcore so fast that you couldn't tell the difference between a
> bicore bot and microcore. The thing that is kinda fascinating is, what
about
> SATURATION? GOt a PNC for that? Who knows, saturated state might be
utilized
> here even. Even so, you can build just as fancy bot with bicores.
>
> Dennison
>
>
> >Hie,
> >
> > I might be wrong but i notice a most of mark T head mechanism uses a
> >standard HX1.0 board which consist of a microcore .....why did he uses
> this
> >instead of our most commonly known bicore which most of us uses for a
head
> >mechanism...dave?ian? anyone who has been to his lab and hear his
> >speech...cause i am experimenting one myself and still i dont know whats
> the
> >advantage of using it(emergent behaviour i guess?but who knows , thats
why
> i
> >seek the knowledge from the list)...another i am curious is does anyone
out
> >there know whats the measurement of the standard DX1.0 and HX1.0 hextile
> >board which mark uses in bigfoot and the Bc1 boards..i printed out a few
> >from the website but later i found that i need to resize them into the
size
> >of 5.5cm by 6.3 cm which i thought is quite small.....anyone?
> >
> >p/s:dave what are those pummers for and those long cylindrical stuff(i
hope
> >i spelled it right..=))thanks a million dave for your spare time
> >
> >thanks
> >jason
> >
> >
> >______________________________________________________
> >
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