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- From: benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Mini Board traffic
- Message-ID: <BENEDICT.93Jan7105320@chaos.utexas.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:53:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan05.172326.25233@news.mentorg.com> <1993Jan06.042436.9188@sharm.uucp>
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- Organization: Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin
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- In-reply-to: nsharma@sharm.uucp's message of 6 Jan 93 04:24:36 GMT
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- Add enough pennies, you'll have a dollar. Here are my $0.02:
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- I agree wholeheartedly with Fred et al. I thought that serious
- robotics projects were well out of my reach. It was only after
- cruising this newsgroup for a while and picking up on the 6.270 class
- (and ftp'ing lots of stuff off of cher.media.mit.edu), and then
- grabbing all the stuff on the miniboard, that I really started getting
- into doing robotics. Had I not seen the postings on the miniboard, I
- might never have gotten this interested.
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- And for the purists who argue that this is a group for true robotic
- experimentation, that's what I like about the 6.270 board and the
- miniboard: They're NOT canned, pre-fab off-the-shelf commercial
- products. They're designed for experimentation and a small
- pocketbook.
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- I've been spreading the gospel here, and several other people have
- gotten interested in building robots as a result. Had the miniboard
- discussion been stifled, I might never have become interested, and
- neither would the others I've told about the miniboard and the 6.270
- board. I don't want to stifle it now.
-
- Tom Benedict
- benedict@chaos.ph.utexas.edu
- Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
- University of Texas at Austin
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