Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #11515
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Andrew Henshaw" andrew.henshaw@gtri.gatech.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:39:02 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Was lobster, now bees
Bruce Robinson wrote:
>The original sound circuit was designed to count "chirps" received. So
>you can modify the circuit to send 4 or 5 different signals by having it
>produce different numbers of chirps. And you can modify it to receive
>those signals by counting the chirps.
It might be interesting to have the pulse rate increase with the quality of
the food. That is, a phototropic robot that found a nice sunny spot would
be more "insistent" than one that was in partial shade. I imagine this
would complicate the current "recognition" circuitry, however.
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