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Message #07591



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bruce Robinson Bruce_Robinson@bc.sympatico.ca
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:35:07 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Colony


Daniel Grace wrote:
>
> I just got into BEAM, and I remember a long time ago I
> saw a BEAM site about a colony of bots that
> 'communicated' with eachother

Try the MIT sites about micro-robots, Daniel. One example is:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/eod-robots/

You can also use the MIT search page at:

http://web.mit.edu/search.html

Type in the word "microrobot" on the first search line. You should get a
couple of dozen pages.

Bruce



7592 Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:11:59 PST [alt-beam] Re: heh heh! sent to me, passin it on to you beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Pete McCarthy" WOW!!! It is very unusual to have your head explode. You should seek
counseling right away if you can't handle a failure. My first robot didn't
work. In fact, it was pretty stagnant compared to everyone else's bots. I
know how frustrating it is! The most important thing is that you learn from
these mistakes and become better.
I know I did!!!

>From: SG
>Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: heh heh! sent to me, passin it on to you
>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 20:58:15 -0600
>
>i didn't write this! one of the newbies did!
>
>I can just see the news papers now......
>
>Police find the body of yet another victim. A police spokesman said "It
>appears that the deceased attempted the foolhardy task of attempting to
>build a Power Smart Head. It took him about four weeks before he
>realised it was an impossible task but by then the drive to finish it
>was to great. He appears to have held out for another week or to until
>his brain began to swell after seeing too many variations of the one
>circuit and finding too many missing 'un-documented' components. This
>eventually lead to his demise when his head finally exploded.....
>
>Please kids.....Dont try this at home....
>
>
>

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7593 Thu, 11 Nov 1993 20:03:16 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: heh heh! sent to me beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG At 05:11 PM 11/11/99 PST, you wrote:
>The most important thing is that you learn from
>these mistakes and become better.

THIS is exactly right!

I have already applied what i have learned to my Walker, and result:
better walker!
Servos on the walker now have a .01 cap directly across the motor leads!
walking gait is so smooth it'd make MT cry.
(well maybe not)
-Sparkahoooweee

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