Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04584
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "John A. deVries II" zozzles@lanl.gov
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:16:57 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Spyder (was: Tilden on TV...)
At 10:30 PM 6/16/99 , Richard Piotter wrote:
>It took be a good 5 seconds before I even realized it was Spyder! It
looked like an MIT robot with
>those "eyes"!!!
The "eyes" are actually the viewfinder of a photographic camera that had, I
believe, automagic focusing. They look cool however... does anyone know if
Mark was ever successful in actually using them as an integral portion of
the robot? Doesn't Spyder have IR control like the device described in the
patent -- is some part of the viewfinder used for that? Anyhow, I have
doubts as to whether or not the "eyes" are functional otherwise.
Zoz
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