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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: SIMPLE ROBOT
Organization: The Armory
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 23:35:14 GMT
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>Ian L. Dees (ian.dees@vircomm.com) wrote:
>: Hello,
>: I need an idea for GOOD & SIMPLE (I MEAN SIMPLE!!!!!) robots to build. 
>: thanks.
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REMEMBER!!! The simplest robot is the active animal trap, mousetrap or
noose and sapling, what have you!! One of the best sources for power for
cute one time only actions are mousetraps and rubber bands!!! These ARE
legitimate robots! And they were the way we became chief species.
Electronics just made the hobby more diverse! There were animal trap
contests back before anybody thought of electrons!!! The trapping contest
goes back thousands of years, the first ROBOT WARS!!! Anything which senses
and decides to act based on programming or construction (programming in
material) is a robot, legally! There are books devoted to cunning
mechanical mechanisms for robotic behavior!!! Even nothing more than carved
wood! As for electronics, many behaviors can be enabled without even a
processor or controller, just with glue chips and subsumption!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

