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Re: Power
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Wed, 18 Mar 1998 05:11:54 GMT
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Patrick Cutts <patrick@surfari.net^Spamcake^>
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<patrick@surfari.^StopSpammers^net>
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I didn't see the program, but I have an article my brother cut out of a
newspaper and sent me, the guy's name is Mark Tilden, he makes all his
robots out of old walkmans and pagers etc. I find his claims kind of hard
to believe also. He has a website at:
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/robot/
-patrick
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> Jeroen van der Vegt,
> A.J.vanderVegt@ITS.TUDelft.nl
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> I saw a program on robotics a while ago on Discovery, and there was a guy
> who builded a complete zoo of robots consisting of only a couple of
> transistors. They did move indeed, but he said they were adapting to • their
> environment, which I find hard to believe.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| I've built a few of his machines myself. The "Neural Net" is a 74ls244 set up as a shift register with RC networks between each stage. The walkers go forward ok, but can't turn or back up. Mark Tilden's very talented at mechanical design, though! (...) (27 years ago, 18-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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