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Message #06819



To: "'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com'" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 08:54:16 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Radio Communications?


Before IC logic families mushroomed, flip-flops were designed with discrete
components and simple gates. It is quite possible to design an equivalent of
a D flip flop in NV (non-chaotic) logic which will toggle (count) when the
output is fed back to the input.

enjoy

Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
tel: (604)590-7493
fax: (604)590-3411

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Piotter [SMTP:richfile@rconnect.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 8:21 AM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Radio Communications?
>
> Nvs Can do a lot of things that flip flops can. not exactly, but close.
> the biggest difference would have to be the clock. Nvs provide their own
> yiming based on the RC charging time and the input current. Flkip Flops
> take a steady clock signal and react to a high or low when the clock
> triggers.
>
> I believe it cou;ld be done, or at least approximated, if not better.
>
> Nvs are more dynamic and even chaotic than Flip Flops. I had a teacher
> ask why I used RC time delay circuits rather than a flip flop based
> counter. My reply was simply that these things are more dynamic. They
> change. They aren't fixed. That's what I like about them!
>
> Tell us what issue. I'd like to try this, seeing as I have a heap of
> 74HC14s!
> --
>
>
> Richard Piotter
> richfile@rconnect.com
>
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> http://richfiles.calc.org
>
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6820 Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:28:10 -0300 [alt-beam] Re: walker behaviours alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) The bot that does that is a turbot, when he said it killed the otherbots and
pushed them in a pile it did do that but it did not do that purposly. All the
bot realy wanted to do was circle the light pool and not mangel the other bots,
but since the turbot has arms and powerful geared motors the other bots would
get caught up in its arms as it was going around and they would have their
wires riped out and eventualy get pushed out to the pile.


Patrick Yeon wrote:

> I read in a reader's digest that Mr. T had a certain robot which he realy
> liked. It would find the best light spot then go around in circles. When an
> other robot would go in that circle the circling robot would crush it and
> push it to the outside. Eventually the robot would have a wall around it. I
> wanted to know, how did he get such a behaviour because I'd like to have
> some bots with the same kind of behaviour.
>
> PAT
>
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