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RE: building a maze
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Date: 
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:27:44 GMT
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Seymour Papert wrote:

Use a virtual maze -- for a suitably programmed robot a line drawn on paper
is as good as one made of stone.

Ahhh, now that Mr. Papert is involved I'll HAVE to get my mazewalker
posted.

I did just that and was able to invert the problem and move the maze under
the robot.

Have a look at <http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pdf/pbForthMaze.pdf>

for some introductory slides I made for Mindfest. I promise I'll post
as soon as I get the sirte updated with some pictures of the walker...

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at:
<http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbFORTH>
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  Re: building a maze
 
(...) It would be great to learn more about your robot! However, one of the things you mention in the document as limitations, namely the incremental errors when a robot moves around, I consider to be just the crux of the matter. Navigating a maze (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: building a maze
 
So, finally, someone managed to build a bot which walks into a virtual maze... Sound great, and looks like what I launched some weeks ago : the lab chalenge... I'm still trying this, but it's quite hard to have your bot do the right things. If (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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Use a virtual maze -- for a suitably programmed robot a line drawn on paper is as good as one made of stone. ---...--- (...) have (...) but (...) possible to (...) please (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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