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Message #05746
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Tuesday, 17 August 1999 1:37
Subject: Re: Contest entry (the bounty bot)
>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
>> >
>>
>> ===
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>>
5747 Tuesday, 17 August 1999 2:17 Re: Contest entry (the bounty bot) beam@sgiblab.sgi.com 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
>
>
>*-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-*
>Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The Master Builder
>
>E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
>BEAM Online - http://www.beam-online.com
>Quote - A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and
>orders a waiter.
> - Morey Amsterdam
>
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