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I'm not sure how feasible this would be, but has anyone considered making a digital camera using the light sensor? All you'd need is a focusing mechanism with lenses/mirrors, and a couple of motors to scan left to right and up and down. Sounds easy (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Pin-holes have always made dandy focusing mechanisms... (...) snip Gordie -- "It is better to ask a 'stupid question' than to make a stupid mistake." (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I nominate a Lego "assembler" as an "ultimate" project for a RCX (or more likely a group of RCXes with a PC). I've seen a few Lego brick sorters, an assembler seems like a logical next step. Once you have all those bricks programmatically (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yick. I'd prefer to build them myself :-/ Jasper (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Try putting some bricks together using your knuckles - that is with pressure feedback, now try doing it in a dark room :) It's a cute idea but I think you'd have *real* trouble with anything smaller than 2x2 bricks, or is that what you meant? (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, yes, I actually had the same idea: use the light sensor on a robot as a crude mobile low-quality camera, which sends back scan-lines to the PC via datalog. however, thinking about the needed IR transmission and the line-of-sight precondition (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm not an AI expert, so correct me if I'm wrong. To evolve, you need a purpose and some means to give it a score how it performs in real life. It would evolve into what? It needs a purpose. And why should it evolve in the first place? How (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Take a look at MIT's lego robotics Automobile assembly plant. (URL) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think all the above are legitimate problems. I was talking to some friends about this the other day. One major problem is the fact that sturdy robots or other similar constructions are usually made up through cross-bracing. To put together a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You're wrong :-> (...) All that is needed for evolution is variation and selection. Variation with in the 'genes' of the population would be the instructions to build each. Selection would be some method that would mark the 'unfit', so that (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I alredy had thought on this as the ultimate project for my CyberMaster (because the strong radio link to the PC). I would put the "brain" in the PC and make the unit wander in the house as if it was an extension to the brain (like the muscles (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) performs in real life. (...) the first place? (...) design and try to combine (...) this is called Genetic Algorithms). (...) Don't be too sure. Unless you constrain it a lot you could get one or two robots which travel fast enough to jam the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Genetic programming (was "Re: IR camera?")
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(...) Genetic programming in general often exhibits unintended results, namely: 1. Unless you're very careful, it ends up optimizing for the special cases rather than the general class of problem you want to solve. In the above example, you're (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think that is worthy of a few sigfiles, don't you? Jasper (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) True. However, in your case, you'd have evolved altruism. Still, the point was that 'purpose' is a perception overlaid on the system by humans. (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Aren't the religious discussions on this list supposed to be confined to the ten commandments of LEGO? -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) :) That is really cute! It can only make one thing though, and those parts are pre-constructed! Richard (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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