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Message #06148
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Darrell Johnson wundoba@pacbell.net
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:33:12 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: 3 motor bicore walker
James Taylor wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that you can link any
> number of bicores together, and they would all work
> together somehow.
Yeah, but emphasize the 'somehow.' Take the beamant circuit for
example.. it contains two coupled master bicores. If you've played
around with it at all you'll see that it's not a very easily controlled
system.. add another coupled master to that, and you're firmly planted
in chaos.. especially when you hook changing loads to it. (motor
feedback) try it and see. Hook LED's up and watch them blink away,
seemingly at random. I'm sure there are uses that could be developed for
such a system, but I have no idea what. Tilden's Rubik's Brain is
probably a network of coupled bicores, nV's and nU's, possibly couples
microcores... but I don't know what it does exactly. BEAM memory anyone?
I'm talking about coupled master bicores though.. straight master-slave
bicores are easy to control in larger numbers.. it's basically the same
principle that I used in my Mod-Worm, except I used Wilf's Monocore
circuit, which is even *easier* to control.
-darrell
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6149 Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:25:03 -0400 [alt-beam] Re: is beam dying? beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bob Shannon If BEAM is not dying, it must be feeling a little sick.
What happened to the 20+ people who were going to enter Chiu's contest?
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