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Message #05742



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BotDoc botdoc@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:06:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Contest entry (the bounty bot)



Ummmm I made a bot that tracks a line can I enter it
too? I just want to state my objections to Ians
entry. How in the hell is a bicore rolling bot an
inovative form of motion? What does putting a bit of
cloth on it to make it a "quicker picker upper" really
have anything to do with inovative form of motion?
Does it make a light show from static electricity or
anything? No it just rolls around like anything else
using a bicore and wheels. It is just a cheap way for
Ian to try and get a prize and not contributing
anything to the different types of motion.


--- Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:
> Nice bot Ian. Although it has absolutely nothing to
> do with the contest goals,
> I'll accept it as a legitimate entry. ;)
>
> How is LANL going?
>
> Chiu
>
> Ian Bernstein wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Check out my contest entry at....
> > http://beam-online.com/chiucontest899/
> >
> > and tell me what you think. It's the first
> "useful" robot in my
> > collection. What it does is goes around my room at
> night and cleans the
> > floor!
> >
> > Laterz
> >
> >
>
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> > Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The
> Master Builder
> >
> > E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
> > BEAM Online - http://www.beam-online.com
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> can hit with a hammer
> >
> > are called hardware; those program
> instructions that you
> > can
> > only curse at are called software."
> > - Levitating Trains and
> Kamikaze Genes
> > Technological
> > Literacy for the 1990's
>
> --
> Chiu-Yuan Fang
> chiumanfu@home.com
> ICQ=5614919
> http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html
>

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5743 Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:37:40 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: Contest entry (the bounty bot) beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Richard Piotter Heck, I'd have entered my diagonaly walking Spyder, except it's not
done. What (was?) the contest deadline?

I say the next contest should give the walker people a nice chance at
some prizes! (:

BotDoc wrote:
>
> Ummmm I made a bot that tracks a line can I enter it
> too? I just want to state my objections to Ians
> entry. How in the hell is a bicore rolling bot an
> inovative form of motion? What does putting a bit of
> cloth on it to make it a "quicker picker upper" really
> have anything to do with inovative form of motion?
> Does it make a light show from static electricity or
> anything? No it just rolls around like anything else
> using a bicore and wheels. It is just a cheap way for
> Ian to try and get a prize and not contributing
> anything to the different types of motion.
>
> --- Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:
> > Nice bot Ian. Although it has absolutely nothing to
> > do with the contest goals,
> > I'll accept it as a legitimate entry. ;)
> >
> > How is LANL going?
> >
> > Chiu
> >
> > Ian Bernstein wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Check out my contest entry at....
> > > http://beam-online.com/chiucontest899/
> > >
> > > and tell me what you think. It's the first
> > "useful" robot in my
> > > collection. What it does is goes around my room at
> > night and cleans the
> > > floor!
> > >
> > > Laterz
> > >
> > >
> >
> *-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-*
> > > Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The
> > Master Builder
> > >
> > > E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
> > > BEAM Online - http://www.beam-online.com
> > > Quote - "Those parts of the system that you
> > can hit with a hammer
> > >
> > > are called hardware; those program
> > instructions that you
> > > can
> > > only curse at are called software."
> > > - Levitating Trains and
> > Kamikaze Genes
> > > Technological
> > > Literacy for the 1990's
> >
> > --
> > Chiu-Yuan Fang
> > chiumanfu@home.com
> > ICQ=5614919
> > http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html
> >
>
> ===
> http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/3904/
> _________________________________________________________
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>


5744 Mon, 16 Aug 99 22:17:46 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: Contest entry (the bounty bot) Ian Bernstein >Ummmm I made a bot that tracks a line can I enter it
>too? I just want to state my objections to Ians
>entry. How in the hell is a bicore rolling bot an
>inovative form of motion? What does putting a bit of
>cloth on it to make it a "quicker picker upper" really
>have anything to do with inovative form of motion?
>Does it make a light show from static electricity or
>anything? No it just rolls around like anything else
>using a bicore and wheels. It is just a cheap way for
>Ian to try and get a prize and not contributing
>anything to the different types of motion.

Your right. It's not really completely done anyways. I'd like to pull it
from the competition.
There was only like one or two entries right? Lots of good prizes for the
next competition!!!

Laterz


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Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The Master Builder

E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
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