Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08634
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Max Inggal tacoman101@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:16:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Chirpping bots
THis idea of making your bots make noise is very cool.
I've already done this to some of my bots. Like on a
SE instead of a motor I used a buzzer from a pager.
It's kinda of annoying but it gets me just in the
morning for school. I also used a oscillator buzzer
instead f a light on one of my pummers. Sounds like a
cricket at night. IT would cool to see if someone
could make a small flock of bots that could some how
communicate to each other using sound.
Possible?
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8635 Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:55:48 -0800 [alt-beam] Re: BEAM SONICS beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bruce Robinson SG wrote:
>
> ... did you apply any of the chirping technology we learned
> while making the reverser sound effect for my Walker?
Nope. I just devised the counter idea, and the idea for a standard or
specification so a bunch of these things made by different people could
all interact.
Actually, Lotus's chirper circuit is too sophisticated for this
application (at least for now). The multiple chirps would fool the
counter circuit into thinking one robot was several.
If this basic idea evolves as I think it might, the complex chirper
circuit might actually be adapted to carry information.
> I can't wait to see where this new spin on things takes us!
> A beam Chorus perhaps? So, who's gonna post the first .WAV
> file of their flock of Phtovores basking in the sunlight?
Oh, it goes much further than that. Richard's idea is that they will
flock in reaction to the sound. You'll need sound AND video. My idea is
the sound and timing should be standardized. Get 40 or 50 BEAMers
together at the BEAM games in Calgary next summer, each with half a
dozen HPV's. 300 small robots nattering away and crowding around each
other. SURE to attract attention :)
Bruce
8636 Wed, 29 Dec 1999 01:41:32 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: Howdy! "Ed Jones Jr." Hi Max ,
I would really like to see pictures , descriptions , etc. of your bots .
Going by their names they sound way cool !!!!
Ed
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