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Re: Power
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:08:05 GMT
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Craig Maynard (EE) <craig.maynard@sait.ab/nospam/.ca>
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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!
Craig
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Patrick Cutts wrote:
> 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/
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> -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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