Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10206
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Max Inggal tacoman101@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:28:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: On making a better RJP...
I made my RJP for around $10. all it is a 3'X 2' of
formica partical board with some 6" high walls around
it to help prevent the bots from escaping. It sits by
my window and I usually see the most activite around
12-3pm after that they are usually dormit.
Plus getting to the point of the color of teh walls in
mine they're just teh color of wood. But from the
pics I've seen of Mark Tildens RJP it seems he uses
all different colors. If you chck out teh pics of
them at SB you can see all of the different color
boxes in it.
One last thing about the guy who wanted to have a beam
bot drive a lamp. Why don't you use some timers? you
get 4 or so lamps and have one or two turn on every
few hours. This would be cool to watch the bots in
timelaps film run back and forth to the light.
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10207 Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:40:55 -0800 Re: On making a better RJP... beam@sgiblab.sgi.com TurtleTek@aol.com [mailto:TurtleTek@aol.com]
There is a tutorial on how to make a RJP on Meer's site, If I remember
correctly. It's nothing special and doesn't really give any new ideas, just
the basic instructions that should be intuitive anyway.
When I'm bored and it's too late at night to think very clearly, I like
to clear off my brown table and make a little RJP for my bots to hang out
in.
This RJP has large obstacles made from brown shoe boxes. I'd change where
the
light (just a 60watt lamp) was every hour or so to keep the bots moving
around. I tried to make a ramp that would lead the bots on top of one of the
shoe boxes (and closer to the light) with some wooden blocks but none of my
bots have an incline-climbing instinct (like one of Beckingham's photovores)
so they didn't really take advantage of that. I also would leave one of the
shoe boxes open so the robots could get inside. Of course, most of them did
their best to avoid the dark cave.
Anyway, if you can take any of that into consideration when building the
BEAM
cam RJP, Great! If not, then at least you got an eerie glimpse into what I
do
with my overabundant free time. 8)
Oh, one last tip, be sure to put all your bots in...or at least most of
them.
That BEAM ant and Symet pair don't really interact. 8)
-Brien the TurtleTek
10208 Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:39:29 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: IVore Ian Hey, I really need to get that tutorial up on the net. The iVore was named
mainly because I came up with the design right after I got an iMac and it
stands for Ian's (i) Photovore (Vore). It's really cool because it's very
simple to build and it is the most liked when I do demos for people.
Laterz
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