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Message #05496
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:23:14 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Another contest entry!
Yeah, but can they leap a tall building in a single bound?
Oh, wait, neither can walkers...
Still, I find walkers more fun, especially since I can get a microcore to
work only when it has more than eight neurons. Boy, fate sure has fun with
me...
Signing off,
Rob Rix
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Life is a like the theatre, but it's lucky anyone can survive with everyone
ad-libbing their lines and the occasional gunfight.
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>From: Bob Shannon
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: Another contest entry!
>Date: Fri, Jul 30, 1999, 11:59 PM
>
> This is a much better fit for BEAM tech than trying to emulate insects or
> quadripeds.
5497 Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:31:15 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: Australian robot competition!!! beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bruce Robinson > David Perry wrote:
>
> thats right!
> I've just found out that the world soccer robot cup is to be held in
> melbourne, australia next year!!!! I'm looking into it now, but
> wouldn't it promote beam if we submittted a beamish robot!! Anyone
> intrested?
I am most definitely interested, even though the chances of me actually
being present are very slim indeed.
The idea of BEAM robot soccer was discussed in a previous thread, but
evolved into a discussion of how you would create a soccer environment
suitable to BEAM, rather than making BEAM adapt to an existing
environment. At the time, I took the trouble to look up the robocup
rules (just as an example), and it seemed to me that a "beam team" was
feasible, although it would be really pushing the envelope. In fact,
Victor, my robot-to-be, is intended to prove out some of the ideas I had
then.
To actually pull this off, we would need the help of a large chunk of
the BEAM community, and it would take a LOT of co-ordinating; I suspect
a lot of the old timers will tell us it can't be done (both the
co-ordinating AND the robots). Personally, I think it's feasible if
enough of the right people get involved.
Perhaps the best approach is for those of us who are interested to get
in touch through David, and then converse among ourselves to devise a
plan of attack. Once we've got a rough idea of what we're up to, we
could invite everyone else on the list to join us.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Bruce
5498 Sat, 31 Jul 99 01:37:14 -0600 [alt-beam] Symets, Web page and BEAM vs. Computers Ian Bernstein Hi all,
Symets----
What is the definition of a symet? Any bot that is symmetrical
(radial...)?
Web page----
Well thanks everyone for clicking on the banner. It'll be down in a
couple days and I'll thank you by adding a few things onto it. I'll be
adding a schematic for my servo driver and maybe the D2 SE or complete
PM1 SE. Also I'll be adding a tutorial for my "iVore" design. It's a
really cool photovore!
BEAM vs. The computer----
I was just giving this some thought and I just wanted to see what you
guys thought.... BEAM stuff is.... What? Any robot that doesn't use a
cpu? A robot that fits into the "BEAM"? It seems only bots that use
Tilden's circuits are 'BEAM' robots????? I mean if I came up with a
really cool circuit and bot nobody here would call it a 'BEAM' robot?
Why? Am I wrong here? And.... BEAM robots are made of transistors. Cpu's
are made up of transistors. Whats the difference? Other than that a cpu
could be called just a really complex 'BEAM' circuit that has memory and
you can 'program' it.
Sorry for throwing so many ideas out in such a small space.
Laterz
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