On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tony Moss wrote: > Many years ago a group of students demonstrated their 'robot fire engine' > to a visiting VIP. The sensor was basically a scanning parabolic > reflector and a thermistor arranged to home in on a fire then squirt
Right about here, is where I started LOL! Too many years as an engineer, not to have made just that kind of mistake... Dave 37.406847N 122.027872W (at work) > water on it.. To make the demonstration more realistic a real fire was > lit in the courtyard and the robot was sent to put it out. After an > initial scan it quickly ignored the experimental fire because it detected > a much bigger one high in the sky! Having carefully aligned its hose it > then tried to put the sun out. In hindsight it had all the makings of an > interesting mechanical sundial. > > Tony Moss > - > -
