Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10563
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "FCO Enr." fco@total.net
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:11:30 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM: Tendency toward miniaturization
greetings,
Well like I mentionned, I do NOT have the required
electronics knowledge to design a better NvNu net design
but I didn't mean to sound like I had no intention of learning
by building and troubleshooting. I know a lot of useless babble
about electronics but I sometimes don't know how it all ties
together.
But that message I wrote wasn't about my electronic
skills but rather about seeing a lot of robots built by a lot of
people with great electronic skills, but seem to be designed
to navigate a flat tabletop.
I guess it was about setting goals. My goal is to
build a microcore walker, learn as much as I can about how
it works, and when it fails to do something, I'll have to expand
my current knowledge and achieve that goal by learning more
and most of all by experimenting with something I find not only
interesting but worthwhile.
Andy
fco@total.net
On 20/02/00, at 4:27 PM, Steven Dang wrote:
>It seems as though the message i was sending across has been garbled. I
>am not against using microprocessors, especially combined with beam. In=
fact
>i think it will become neccesary. I was simply saying that Andy's goal of
>simply creating a robot to navigate through rugged enviroments without=
having
>the proper electronics knowledge was slightly ignorant. Robotics has its
>basis in electronics and to try to avoid having to learn at least some
>electronics basics is going to bring you to a dead end.
> I am completely in support of using BEAM in combination with
>microprocessors, but to avoid learning some of the basic electronics is=
not
>the way to go.
>
>Steven
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