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Message #08279
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Thomas Pilgaard Nielsen ascii@hum.auc.dk
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:50:28 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Bots for my b-day
Rik wrote:
Happy birthday and happy bot'ing :)
I have a friend who made a quasimodo like dog with LEGO-mindstorm.
Unfortunately it whacked it's own head off while poorly attempting to
stagger around. What's more unfortunate is that the battery was placed
in the head. Perhaps he has a future at NASA? (ok, bad joke!)
Uh oh, i forgot. I heard rumours about a wireless cams and
motion-tracker like devices for LEGO mindstorm as well. Some guys at the
institute of intelligent multimedia at the local university here in
Aalborg had some prototypes. Though the ones they had were limited by a
wire connected to a USB port it was quite impressive what they had the
little critters doing. One of them responded to certain voice commands
and would find or follow a person on his or her command.
Not very beamish but a h*lluwa lot of fun.
again - Happy 32nd birthday.
Thomas
Denmark
>=20
> well...not like anyone REALLY cares..but i thought id share the happine=
ss
> and let you all know that i received a Lego Mindstorm set today for my =
32nd
> Birthday...thanks to my great girlfriend!
>=20
> off to make bots!!!!
>=20
> pictures coming soon!!!
>=20
> -Rik
>=20
> a.k.a - MuTaNt b0y
--=20
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"Stj=E5lne tusser skriver bedst."
Yvonne Miller
8280 Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:52:10 -0500 [alt-beam] Active Surplus beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Ian Tinker the website for active surplus is http://www.activesurplus.com/
they are on 347 Queen st W. Toronto, Ont. Canada
they are a BEAMers delight - lots of old Walkman guts, most common
electronic components, and other cool electronics.
See ya
Tink
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