"... and no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, shall draw the thing as he sees it, for the god of things as they are"
-Kipling
-Kipling
FPath is a project to explore the possibilities of the Feynman Path to Nanotechnology. Essentially this means using tools to make small tools which then make smaller tools. See the main FPath Project page for more details.
The target goal of this experiment is:
This experiment documents how embedded commands can be used with Graphical Stigmergy techniques to initiate complex actions. Also discussed is an implementation of a distributed Subsumption Control Architecture.
The background, some theory and a demonstration of Graphical Stigmergy techniques implementing the commands embedded in a Graphical Stigmergic path are fully documented in this experiments video. In addition, the video also discusses the utility of a Distributed Subsumption Control Architecture but a detailed discussion of the implmentation has been left for a subsequent video.
The experiment successfully demonstrated the controlled activation of actuators when a 90 micron probe was moving along a virtual path and hit a section with command values embedded in the alpha channel of the pixel.
Fairly significant changes were made to the Walnut software and this software has been released to the GitHub repo as version 00.02.11 and Commit ID 3cab1cf.
The experiment was successful. This experiment demonstrates virtual path following and the activation of experimental devices when an command embedded in the path was traversed.
This experiment was also discussed in a post on the RepRap Blog: Embedded Commands
This experiment is now complete.
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