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Message #11366



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Cary Stanley carystanley@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:20:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: WOO-HOO!




--- BUDSCOTT@aol.com wrote:
> Well, thanks to all you guys' input, i finished my
> walker and it works
> wonderful! As soon as i get some pics and somebody
> who wan't to post other
> peoples work, i'll put up some pictures. Right now
> it just walks forward and
> thats about it, gotta mount a tacticle sensor, and
> after a while, maybe put
> in some photodiodes. Making my photovores was nothin
> compared to making this,
> most of those i spent less that a day on, this took
> me a couple weeks, not to
> mention the part gathering and planning stage! thx a
> ton, i appreciate it!
>
> -Spencer
>
>
>
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11367 Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:27:11 EST [alt-beam] Re: removable sensors beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com i bought a small jack that is about 1 x 1 x .5 cm, the plugs aren't too big,
but they are really light, i works awesome, this way you can make different
sensors for different environments, plus, the inside of the plug housing is
perfect for touch sensor stuff. it has a small solder pad in the middle of
the plug, with a long extention for the other half of the plug, it has a
small "U" at the end, Heck, solder a ring around the one end and solder the
sensor to the pad and you have a simple sensor!

-Spencer



11368 Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:36:00 GMT [alt-beam] Re: frankendaddy? beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Mike Kulesza"
Ooops... sorry for the delay - your link is now up on my site.

I said it was done at the time of writing.

www.geocities.com/beambotix

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11369 Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:35:37 EST [alt-beam] lobster beam@corp.sgi.com Bumper314@aol.com All the info I see on Lobster seems to say that it was not a success. I see
Tilden talking about it falling down all the time. So in the argument of 5
motor walkers over 4 or 3, I guess the circuit is just as important as the
frame. I have been happy with the bicore, so should I make a 5 motor walker
with bicores, or go to the old microcore? Chiu's did seem very able and fast
even with the microcore, and you cant argue with the success of Walkman, but
I hate how people try to push the jittery first steps before the PNC has set
the right pulse as the bot actually learning. That has been disproven correct.

Steve



11370 Sun, 5 Mar 2000 14:37:10 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Yahoo Chat now beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Max Inggal If any one wants to chat at Yahoo go now. I'll be
there till around 6:30pm eastern
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11371 Sun, 5 Mar 2000 18:04:25 EST [alt-beam] Re: lobster beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com how does that microcore work anyways, i've used the bicore and am pretty sure
what exactly that does (glorified occilator), but i'm confused about this
microcore business, is it obsolete or is it just more difficult than the
bicore?

-Spencer



11372 Sun, 5 Mar 2000 18:20:42 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: lobster > I hate how people try to push the jittery first steps before the PNC has =
set =

> the right pulse as the bot actually learning. That has been disproven cor=
rect.

Well, I personally don't believe that the bots are "learning". The chip is=
just settling into a useful pattern.
The term that has been bandied about for this is emergent behavior, but I'm=
none too sure about that one either.

Richard


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this is emergent behavior, but I'm none too sure about that one =

either.

 

Richard




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