[ale] robots

[Christopher Bergeron]

Jeff, I'm all for your idea.  However, considering that if you have
several of these units roam your yard constantly during the summer might
it not be a better idea to just replace your yard/grass entirely with
solar panels and give some juice back to your home?  :)

All jokes aside, I'd really like to be kept updated on your progress.
This sounds very intriguing and it definitely sounds like a job for a
Basic Stamp.

One thing to consider will be that you will have to have enough 'bots to
cover your entire yard surface over the course of a week or two; lest
you'll have "patches" in your yard that haven't been cut (I'm picturing
a handful of _really_ long blades of grass every here and there)...

-CB


> -----Original Message-----
> From: phardie [mailto:phardie] On Behalf Of Pete Hardie
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:14 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] robots
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 16:38, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > > I just remember that Cabbage Patch doll that was supposed to 'eat'
> plastic
> > > food, and it turned out to be possible to get a finger caught in
the
> > > mechanism.
> >
> > Well, what do you want to use, BIG FRICKIN' LASERS?? :-)
> 
> Flamethrowers.
> 
> 
> > > Actually, getting the twigs out sounds like a great task for
another
> bot -
> > > with a much simpler design, since it needs only rake and area, and
> have a
> > > 'home base' to rake the debris to.
> >
> > Well, but you're making a huge complexity jump.  The hypothetical
mowing
> > bot I'm talking about would not even really know anything about
grass;
> > it would just creep around and just sort of happen to be cutting
grass.
> > You're talking about matters of detection at a distance (home base)
that
> > can certainly be addressed, but only by upping the complexity a lot.
> 
> I wasn't thinking of anything too complex - the RakeBot just has an
out
> path
> that is semi-random, and a return path to a beacon.  However, the
power
> budget
> might need to be markedly greater to overcome the friction of debris.
> 
> 
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