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Hi Ian,
    I've worked a little with a few different types of  home built robots
including wheeled, flying, walking and swimming. I build my own circuits mainly,
that way I can kinda design how I want it to work and I don't end up paying for
features that I'm not really going to use. Cheap I guess is the best way to put
it.
    Your server shows U of W. Do you know Ed Spike? He heads up (or at least
used to) a robotics club in the University. If he and the club are still around
and active, let me know as I would like to come to a few of the meetings.
    I see you are doing some AI. Another person on this list (say Hi John) was
expressing some interest in this field. Since both John and I (well.. mainly me)
are newbies at this, perhaps we can get a discussion going on subsumption
architecture and weighting rules.
    I still can't quite wrap my head around feeding the result back into the
input in order to minimize the output differential. I know it sort of like using
a rotor on a TV antenna (you turn the dial by the sofa and the aerial moves
though a feedback loop for those of you who grew up with cable) but I really
don't fully understand the propagation technique. Hints? Clues? Books I should
read that can be understood by a non-engineer?

appreciate all comments,

frank

"D. Ian MacLennan" wrote:

> What type of robots have you developed?  I haven't built anything myself,
> but I am interested in it and hope to build next term.  I am currently
> working for a company that specializes in autonomous robotics and artificial
> intelligence.  I'd be interested to hear what kind of projects you have
> done.
>
> Have you used prebuilt microprocessor/controller circuits or do you make
> your own circuit?  i.e. do you buy a single board computer or do you make
> them?
>
> Ian
>
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