Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10620
To: alt-beam@egroups.com
From: Ben A Micklin kcimb@juno.com
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:04:59 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: symet
Does anybody know of any good tutorials on how to build a symet?
~ben~
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:52:45 EST BUDSCOTT@aol.com writes:
> three is good with the 1000uF caps, but, if you can use four, it
> works great!
> i use four 1000uF caps on mine and it works great!
>
> -Spencer
>
>
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10621 Tuesday, 22 February 2000 3:15 Re: BEAM: Tendency toward miniaturization beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com
> (NOTE: the writer of this e-mail in no way means to attack anybody else,
so
>please don't hunt me down and kill me!)
>
> I too love my photovores and think they're a great robot, even my symet
>has a small portion of affection. i just think that sometimes we don't
>realize that we aren't God. we can't reproduce exact living organisms, we
>can't really make things that will react to an environments that we face.
we
>have to realize that these are simple two-dimesional entities. they simply
do
>what they are made to do, the definition of a robot is a machine that
>completes a given task. we can't make robots that will completely develoup
a
>full fledge "personality" and act as if truely alive. we can make them look
>like they're really alive, but in all reality they are simply a silicon net
>made to achieve a goal. now i know that i'm gonna step on some peoples toes
>by saying this and some people probably won't respond to my mail anymore.
but
>that's the risk i take in making a point. this has probably been the most
>replied to and interesting set of e-mails on this list that i've ever seen,
>but than again, we are trying to define our goal in making these bots.
sorry
>for being long winded, i'll shut up now! Keep on BEAMin'!
>
> -Spencer
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