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Here's an Idea. Tilden say's that a robot should constantly look for
better food. And while this is a good idea, what if it already happens to be
in the brightest light pool? It doesn't make sense to leave. Sure it's not
as interesting, but personally I've been on the side of the robots staying.
Anyway, I used to be interseted in finding a way that a robot could tell if
it was in the best source of light or not. I wasn't sure how to do this,
thinking 'cds cells by the solarcell, some fancy circuitry?' well heres a
simplified idea. Just use a solar head, that uses that new fancy stuff, I
forget, 139 bridge, poppernets, or something? You know the one that blinks
when it's "locked on". Well, instead of routing the outputs to one motor,
route it to two so it's like a photovore, buzzing around looking for the
brightest source of light. Then, once you find this source of light, the
robot starts to blink to indiciate it's in the brightest light pool, and it
aint moving. This would have several emergent behaviors, one of them would
be, if another bot came by, and cast a shadow then the bot would very
quickly move out of the way, avoiding the shadow. Flight behavior. Stuff
like that. Anyway, someone should try it. I haven't studyed the poppernet
(that's what it's called right?) circuitry for a few months so I'm a little
rusty, and unsure about the conditions for a 'error' bit message on the 139.
but it sounds feasible.
dennison
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this is a good idea, what if it already happens to be in the brightest li=
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pool? It doesn't make sense to leave. Sure it's not as interesting, but =
personally I've been on the side of the robots staying. Anyway, I used to=
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interseted in finding a way that a robot could tell if it was in the best=
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source of light or not. I wasn't sure how to do this, thinking 'cds =
cells by the solarcell, some fancy circuitry?' well heres a simplif=
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idea. Just use a solar head, that uses that new fancy stuff, I forget, 13=
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bridge, poppernets, or something? You know the one that blinks when it's =
"locked on". Well, instead of routing the outputs to one motor, route it =
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two so it's like a photovore, buzzing around looking for the brightest so=
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of light. Then, once you find this source of light, the robot starts to b=
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to indiciate it's in the brightest light pool, and it aint moving. This w=
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have several emergent behaviors, one of them would be, if another bo=
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came by, and cast a shadow then the bot would very quickly move out of th=
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way, avoiding the shadow. Flight behavior. Stuff like that. Anyway, someo=
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should try it. I haven't studyed the poppernet (that's what it's called =
right?) circuitry for a few months so I'm a little rusty, and unsure abou=
t the =
conditions for a 'error' bit message on the 139. but it sounds feasible.=
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