Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #11835
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Jim Taylor" ace27@icdc.com
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:56:20 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Turbots
Hey Jim, remeber Wilf's E-VORE circuit...........they work great on turbots
too. You can even use the arms as the antenna, the bigger the better
>>anybod battle them i know no one would like to lose a bot. but i mean
> > having only 1 exposed wire leading to the power so only the power supply
is
> > cut so the wire can connected again without damaging the bot.
> How about a kill switch on the bots. Also a system by which the bots
always
> seek each other. Maybe a white body with a large ultra bright LED and two
> photodiode eyes. A system that tracks by illuminating the opponent like
Dr.
> Tilden's 2DOF head. Put them in a round arena with black walls and let
them
> have at it until one or the other gets their kill switch pushed. The
winner
> is the last bot moving. You could have something here, but I wouldn't
limit
> it to turbots.
>
> See ya,
> Jim
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
> ICQ# 55657870
>
James Taylor
"Edgar The Hate Bug"
URL: http://fly.to/springmeadows
ICQ 14888587
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