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Re: IR camera?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:52:24 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote:
> Just wondering what you all think the ultimate
> project might be. Personally, I'd like to eventually do an RCX/PC
> AI or artificial life project that allows the PC to become self-aware
> by investigating and manipulating its environment through the RCX.
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 sorted the assembler program could use this
information to retrieve the bricks and build something.
"Ultimately" it would be cool if this assembler could use standard Lego
CAD program files for instructions. This way we could not only look at
CAD drawings of each others Lego creations, but we could have an assembler
build them for us (if we wished).
Taking this a step farther, this could flow right into your AI or
Artificial Life project. Each object that was created with an assembler
would have a "genetic code". If you provided a way via genetic
algorithms, for these creations to exchange genetic information, and to
pass on to the next generation, you could watch your Lego creations
evolve. It would probably be a good idea to program in natural death so
the pieces could be re-used. I can imagine an ecosystem evolving where
the different Lego creatures compete for the scares Lego resources and
somehow a homeostasis is maintained.
What do you think? Pure fantasy? If people think it could be done with
Nanotechnology why not Legos?
-Brandon
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Ultimate Project
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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? (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Ultimate Project
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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) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IR camera?
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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