Stiquito nervous system?

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From: Charles C. Bundy
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:13

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Stiquito looks interesting!  Has anyone ever tried to marry 
microprogramming with robot control?  If you think of the
legs as being "control points" you can slap a clocked FIFO and
IR I/O onto the frame and read in/out as if to a primitive
nervous system (remote host computer would be ideal in the case 
of stiquito!)  Add 'n' bits to your control word where your
control store is 2^n and you have branching/looping!  Use a pal
to decode sensor input + current microprog. word, and feedback
control can be implemented.  So ultimately stiquito could be
a walking CPU :)

Charles C. Bundy IV

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