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On 5/23/05, Larry Pieniazek mylastname <larry.@ascentialsoftware.dot.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, danny staple <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/23/05, Larry Pieniazek mylastname <larry.@ascentialsoftware.dot.com>
> > wrote:
> > > In lugnet.events.brickfest, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Suz,
> > > >
> > > > While it's not exactly a 'simulation', there is a community project for
> > > > the
> > > > robotics/technic areas this year. More will be announced soon, but you
> > > > can
> > > > get
> > > > started by looking here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > >
> > > Right, but haven't you and your cohorts (Hi Brian!) been busily proving
> > > that
> > > there hasn't yet been a mechanism that NEEDED an RCX? Most of the GBC
> > > modules
> > > are (brilliantly, elegantly...) purely mechanical except for the train ball
> > > return, and Brian was claiming that a sufficiently clever mechanical
> > > engineer
> > > could do that one without an RCX either....
> >
> > Not having an RCX does not necesarily make it irrelevant to robotics.
> > I consider automatons fairly relevant - and the technique of getting a
> > single motor to do many things is a very valuable one, especially
> > considering the IO limitations of the RCX compared with say a PIC
> > based controller.
>
> TOTALLY agree. Not saying it's not relevant to robotics, there is lots of
> clever
> mechanical stuff to be learned from GBC... Just saying it's somewhat in a
> different direction from leaving a bunch of identical RCX based autonomous
> mobile mechanisms running identical code all fest long to see if emergence
> happens...
Which I agree would be a very cool thing to see, especially with some
strategic filming. Is there not room for both? Again, it would be neat
to include Spybotics as well - depending on the behaviour you are
trying to get.
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