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2023-01-17 12:32 am
W. Grey Walter has been credited with creating the first electronic autonomous robots. Here’s a clip of him with his robot tortoises.
Pico/RP2040 ≠ Arduino
Pico = hot rod kit car, Arduino = hot rod kit car wrapped in cotton wool with buoyancy aids & parachute
2023-01-17 11:12 pm
State of the art before programmable digital circuits became cheap and in small packages which we could use to emulate the bulky analogue circuits used in these simple reflex robots. Advanced brains are essentially digital in nature allowing for crisp logical processing.
2023-01-18 12:47 am
@robotbuilder Contrast that to the new bleeding edge, AI which is fuzzy logic which is the more accurate emulation of our brains. I have often said my abilities were best defined by an ability to think illogically. Of course today they call that thinking out of the box, but I was doing that 40ish years ago.
Arduino says and I agree, in general, the const keyword is preferred for defining constants and should be used instead of #define
"Never wrestle with a pig....the pig loves it and you end up covered in mud..." anon
My experience hours are >75,000 and I stopped counting in 2004.
Major Languages - 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PLI/1, Pascal, C plus numerous job control and scripting
Topic starter
2023-01-19 3:24 am
Advanced brains are essentially digital in nature allowing for crisp logical processing.
Well, I don't know about crisp logical processing but I did notice that Walter's tortoises used a bumper that looks like something that you drew months ago.
Tom
Pico/RP2040 ≠ Arduino
Pico = hot rod kit car, Arduino = hot rod kit car wrapped in cotton wool with buoyancy aids & parachute
2023-01-19 5:43 am
Well, I don't know about crisp logical processing but I did notice that Walter's tortoises used a bumper that looks like something that you drew months ago.
Yes I noticed it used the bumper idea I proposed. An obvious possible method I would have thought. Maybe I have seen it before but forgot where and when. Or maybe same problem similar solution.
I think this is a nice introduction to fuzzy logic which you might want to implement in a robot or some other controller.