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To: alt-beam@egroups.com
From: michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:43:03 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM Flocking (HPV)



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> Sound like a great idea to me but first we need someone to organize
> it.
> since Richard came up with the idea I nominated him, anyone going to
> second me?
>
> i seen a site with an idea exactly like this a while back, this is
> it http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/3434/fbots.html
> on his site he calls them Triffids, i think that would be a good idea
> to call the bots, we could call it the triffid project
>
>
> 1. Battery Power with solar charging capabilities!2. Auditory
> sensors (for positive audiotropism)3. Vocalization4. Locomotion
> ('natch)5. Vision (for positive phototropism)6. Collision avoidance
> (feelers) What I'm proposing that we do is to work on a joint
> project. It's working quite well on the Soccer Project and the PSH
> Project. I feel that we need to push BEAM Tek forward. There is a
> vast pool of knowledge and creativity to draw from out there, so lets
> get off our collective duffs and take our hobby to a useful level!


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Sound like
a great idea to me but first we need someone to organize it.

since Richard came up with
the idea I nominated him, anyone going to second me?

i seen a site with an idea
exactly like this a while back, this is it   http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/3434/fbots.html">http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/3434/fbots.html">http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/3434/fbots.html

on his site he calls them
Triffids, i think that would be a good idea to call the bots, we could
call it the triffid project

 

 

  1. 
Battery Power with solar charging capabilities!2. 
Auditory sensors (for positive audiotropism)3. 
Vocalization4. 
Locomotion ('natch)5. 
Vision (for positive phototropism)6. 
Collision avoidance (feelers) What
I'm proposing that we do is to work on a joint project.  It's working
quite well on the Soccer Project and the PSH Project. I
feel that we need to push BEAM Tek forward.  There is a vast pool
of knowledge and creativity to draw from out there, so lets get off our
collective duffs and take our hobby to a useful level! 







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8311 Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:10:55 PST [alt-beam] Re: This Is Really Funny !!! beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Timothy Flytcher" >From: lgh4@aol.com
>Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>To: fny3@aol.com
>Subject: This Is Really Funny !!!
>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 99 22:36:24 Eastern Standard Time


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8312 Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:18:14 EST [alt-beam] Re: BEAM Flocking (HPV) alt-beam@egroups.com TurtleTek@aol.com In a message dated 12/16/99 9:30:39 PM Central Standard Time, richard@cqc.com
writes:

> 2. Auditory sensors (for positive audiotropism)
> 3. Vocalization

The potential problem I see is that the bots will be attracted not only
to the sounds from other bots but also to sound from other things. TV,
radios, animals, humans, all very noisy things. The sound the bots would make
would have to be very unique for radios and TVs make all kinds of sounds. Not
only that, but the bots would also have to be able to only hear that very
unique sound.
What about listening? That's something that could be slightly difficult
in a bot such as a photovore, what with it's on-off operation. How would the
bot be able to listen all the time? I don't know very much about audio
electronics so I have no idea how this would be done.
Very interesting idea. I hope what I am wrong and that this is an easy
problem to tackle.

-Brien the TurtleTek



8313 Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:26:34 -0400 [alt-beam] Re: BEAM Flocking (HPV) alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) you could use the CSE as the solar engine so it can listen all the time, all u
have to do is use that connection that was designed to power an IC all the time.
The bots could have it tuned so that they could only produce sounds higher pitch
then humans can her and they would only respond to sounds higher pitch then
humans can hear, that elminates the radio or the TV or Humans or most of the
things around the habitat for the bots.

TurtleTek@aol.com wrote:

> What about listening? That's something that could be slightly difficult
> in a bot such as a photovore, what with it's on-off operation. How would the
> bot be able to listen all the time? I don't know very much about audio
> electronics so I have no idea how this would be done.
> Very interesting idea. I hope what I am wrong and that this is an easy
> problem to tackle.
>
> -Brien the TurtleTek
>



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