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Message #12146
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Justin JAF60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:44:23 +1200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: HPV Questions
>There is no other information. I'm it. :)
>If you have questions, you can ask me. Have you checked out The Sonics
>article? Go to Bruce Robinson's site and check it out. It's part of it. I
>have the PCB ready for production, but waiting for more $$ to get it done.
Yep, I really like the look of that circuit, and will hopefully play
with it i the future. I'm kind of wondering how you plan to get herding
behavour with it?
I'm inclined to suspect that what I think of as "herding behavour" is a
few steps down the track, and this is the first step, so it won't
actually give herding behaviour, but rather, allow us to achieve it
later on.
I've only skim-read it, but it pointed out the ability to stop bots when
they hear enough chirping (ie like a game of "sardines", they eventually
end up in a herd, but it's a static herd). I was wondering what sort of
thoughts and speculations have been made on less er... "dead" herds? The
obvious one to mechanically-minded-me is duplicate the circuit and use
direction microphones to create a chirp-locating bot, photopopper style
(or more likely, have chirp sensors and light sensors added to determine
direction of travel). Unfortunately, I don't know how easy it is to make
a directional mike, and how effective it would be. But these are my
10-second speculations, you guys will have put more thought into it and
I'm interested in what sort of things you've got in mind :-)
12147 Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:29:57 -0500 Re: HPV Questions Justin
> >There is no other information. I'm it. :)
>
> >If you have questions, you can ask me. Have you checked out The Sonics
> >article? Go to Bruce Robinson's site and check it out. It's part of it. I
> >have the PCB ready for production, but waiting for more $$ to get it
done.
>
> Yep, I really like the look of that circuit, and will hopefully play
> with it i the future. I'm kind of wondering how you plan to get herding
> behavour with it?
> I'm inclined to suspect that what I think of as "herding behavour" is a
> few steps down the track, and this is the first step, so it won't
> actually give herding behaviour, but rather, allow us to achieve it
> later on.
> I've only skim-read it, but it pointed out the ability to stop bots when
> they hear enough chirping (ie like a game of "sardines", they eventually
> end up in a herd, but it's a static herd). I was wondering what sort of
> thoughts and speculations have been made on less er... "dead" herds? The
> obvious one to mechanically-minded-me is duplicate the circuit and use
> direction microphones to create a chirp-locating bot, photopopper style
> (or more likely, have chirp sensors and light sensors added to determine
> direction of travel). Unfortunately, I don't know how easy it is to make
> a directional mike, and how effective it would be. But these are my
> 10-second speculations, you guys will have put more thought into it and
> I'm interested in what sort of things you've got in mind :-)
>
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