There's a book by Pat Murphy called The City Not Long After, a magical realist SF book set in the Bay Area after a world-decimating plague. Mantid's post reminds me: one of the book's characters renames himself The Machine after he survives the plague, and builds scores of just this kind of largish-scale solar-powered autonomous machine.

yeah! fuck burning man!

The modular robots look very interesting. k0re, have you played with beam robots, such as the ones solarbotics.com sells? I've been homebrewing them for a few years because they are so much cheaper than "real" robots, but its time to start to work with microprocessors. Today's dream is a ranch where I can let largish-scale autonomous machines (ideally 4-legged walkers) navigate and cope with weather while feeding from the sun.

k0re 0wns.

Edited by author 09-12-2003 11:30 AM
While I'm at it -here's more: Survival Research Labs instigator and director Mark Pauline and the lovely Ms Amy Critchett are getting married next weekend! Congrats to them!

yaaaaay, Karen!!!!!