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Re: My ultimate project
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Date: 
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:17:00 GMT
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Lewis, James C. <jclewis@time-and-money*antispam*.com>
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You should try it! Your idea is very original and at the very least you
could probably publish your results, positive or negative, in a number of
different publications. Just look out for those animal activists!

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Shafer <joel@connect.net>
To: Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt>
Cc: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: My ultimate project


Now that is wild!  I would love to hear your results.

At 11:29 PM 4/19/99 +0100, you wrote:

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 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!?!?

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

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.

Any other wild ideas? :-)


Laurentino Martins

[mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]

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Joel Shafer    joel@connect.net

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