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Re: My ultimate project
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:17:00 GMT
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Lewis, James C. <jclewis@time-and-money.comNOSPAM>
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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/]
> > 
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
> 
> 
> Joel Shafer    joel@connect.net
> 
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics


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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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