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Re: My ultimate project
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:38:11 GMT
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Joel Shafer <joel@&StopSpam&connect.net>
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Now that is wild! I would love to hear your results.
At 11:29 PM 4/19/99 +0100, you wrote:
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> I've been thinking (probably too much) about my ultimate project, and I had
> this wildest idea I remember never having in a lot of years...
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> All my bots are stupid. I know that I don't have the power to make them
> intelligent, so I'm condemned to build stupid bots.
> The only intelligence in my bots is mine and they do what I want (most of
> the time), so there's no surprise in anything they do.
> What about if the intelligence wasn't mine? It wouldn't be interesting to
> see what another intelligence would do?
> Another intelligence... intelligence... my dog? Nahhh, too big. The gold
> fish? too wet ... what about the turtle!?!?
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> And then it struck me!! What about creating a bionic enhancement to my
> turtle!? She's about 15 cm long, just the right size. I would strap her
> gently to the bot, put a couple of touch sensors under it's feet and a touch
> sensor in a forward bumper. Then, each time she wants to walk she moves the
> feet and the track on that side would move accordingly to her movements.
> I could create a program that would drive the bot very gently and with an
> auto-reverse feature if bumps into a wall. She doesn't even need a helmet
> because she hides the head at the least sign of danger. (]:)
> And maybe, just maybe she can learn to drive the bot and start behaving
> normal, like if it was a bionic implant! :-)
> An ultimate project I can build... Somebody stop me please!! =:-o
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> PS: Don't worry about the turtle. Her safety and well-being is my highest
> priority. :-)
> Besides, I probably will never build the bot anyway, and that's why I call
> it my ultimate project.
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> Any other wild ideas? :-)
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> Laurentino Martins
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> [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
> [http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]
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> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
Joel Shafer joel@connect.net
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| This reminds me of a picture in a popular science magazine ('Kijk'). It showed a large insect (grasshopper maybe) which was strapped in front of a motorized cart. By flapping its wings (amount and direction) it controlled speed and direction of the (...) (27 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've been thinking (probably too much) about my ultimate project, and I had this wildest idea I remember never having in a lot of years... All my bots are stupid. I know that I don't have the power to make them intelligent, so I'm condemned to build (...) (27 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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