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Re: rcxhttpd?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:51:44 GMT
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I love the idea, I think it would be great to see hundreds of little bots
whizzing round my house comunicating with each other. Its a bit like teaching
your dog to fetch the morning mail.
Alan Bell.
In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Jack Perdue writes:
> "Brian B. Alano" <alano@kiva.net> wrote:
> > > Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > > > What about other TCP protocols? Wouldn't it be fun to ftp or telnet to
> > > > your RCX brick? (Just because you can? :-)
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> > > Don't forget 'finger'. There's already provisions for vending machines, so
> > > it's not much of a stretch. :)
>
> > Why not SMTP (E-mail)? Then we could IR an E-mail to a 'bot, who could
> > wander around the house until it finds another 'bot. Then it would relay
> > the message to that 'bot. This second 'bot could wander around until
> > finding another 'bot, or an active IR tower, etc. until the E-mail
> > finally gets delivered to the target 'bot or PC ;-)
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> LOL! I like it!
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> > More seriously,
>
> [other protocols snipped]
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> > 5) (again with the SMTP). SMTP was designed with consideration for
> > low-powered devices in mind, and as such shouldn't be hard to implement.
> > (But where would you *store* messages?) SMTP (and E-mail in general) is
> > a "store and forward" protocol: messages are received and stored until
> > they can be re-transmitted closer to their destination. All my ideas for
> > using this involve a COMMUNITY larger than any yet proposed on this
> > list (I'm thinking of honey bees, espionage networks,...). Wait, I just
> > thought of a use: a 'bot with SMTP could communicate directly with the
> > lugnet.robotics.rcx list/newsgroup! Think of it! Your own 'bot could
> > monitor the list for postings written by its creator, and when it saw words
> > like "rebuild" or "scrap", it could find a dark corner to hide in! Or worse,
> > you could get flamed by your own creation! (Now aren't you glad you read
> > this whole posting :-)
>
> Yes I am! Now, to convince the department that we _really_ need
> 1000 more Mindstorm kits as a fall-back for e-mail in case the net
> goes down. ;)
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> jack (envisioning a building full of roving bots occassionally getting
> squished by students rushing to class).
> j-perdue@tamu.edu
> http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/jkp2866/
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| (...) LOL! I like it! (...) [other protocols snipped] (...) Yes I am! Now, to convince the department that we _really_ need 1000 more Mindstorm kits as a fall-back for e-mail in case the net goes down. ;) jack (envisioning a building full of roving (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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