[MagnusWootton]

Glad to see all you guys are all still here!!!

So I've been still working on my stuff, but I'm so sick from smoking, im starting to have fits in my sleep.

Anyway,     So I've done alot of analogue and digital logic now,  and from trying to produce this water retentive rubber, I've actually got a bit more knowledge on chemistry, and how you possibly can make a liquid computer of a small linear state.

A small linear state of 30 bits is quite useless,  but a small linear state of 30 analogue values could be enough to run some simplistic motor behavior!

So far I think I could possibly get 2 values in a vat of liquid possibly feeding back to the 1st value for the output going through a basic logic gate of getting the intersection of two detergents.
If you could change the miscibility of the detergent somehow,  then you can change what the state is of the computer.

So if u managed to somehow get to 30 interacting detergents, where its hard to say how you were going to route them,   then you could get a compute going.    And im thinking a viscous blob creature!

Its body is so simple, that possibly its body could be simply 4 values its going to modify to move around with!   cause theres no body here, its just slime so maybe a position and a radius is all it needs.

Made me think how terminator really was a worthy sequal,  that the liquid terminator is a blob robot!!!  its like from the blob movie!     So the blob could turn into 2 smaller blobs, or 4 quarter blobs if it was all 1 liquid doing the computer in a super position.

it could all connect into 1 giant blob as big as the sphinx in ejypt!!!

But if you make a bunch of liquid blob out of your chemistry equipment, is a good job?  Or is it the biggest failure of your whole life.

[WriterOfMinds]

That doesn't sound good man, are you in treatment?

[MikeB]

Everything I do now, I think about productising it. That has basically locked me into doing the same thing year in, year out.

[MagnusWootton]

That doesn't sound good man, are you in treatment?

im going to quit its my fault dont feel sorry for me.


MIKEB - its kinda fun making robots!!!  liquid robots is cool too!!!  if u get it into toyworld big success!!!

[MagnusWootton]

So talking about the liquid computer.

Maybe It's hard to make the liquid computer,  but in a form of the most simplest compute possible it may be able to do it.

So theres some kinda thing as anisotropic liquid. (like liquid crystal displays or ferro fluid)   So if you line up the molecules or whatever, to all face the same direction. (Maybe using magnetic and electric fields.) then if u solidify it when its lined up itll have anisotropic behaviour to sound and light.  (Like glass that you can only see one way through, which is essentially a diode!)

So if you had so many of the anistropic liquids pointing different directions outward from the liquid, and you absorb the rest of the energy in different directions,   you could put it in the form of a perceptron, one weight per direction out of the liquid.

And thats how they make those little obstacle avoider networks like this ->



So the anisotropic liquids are pointing outward to see the obstacles.

It would have to be in a solidified state to keep the liquid lined up to itself for the directional absorption.


Then the absorbed heat energy managed to melt and solidify the liquid as it turned on and off,  then maybe u could produce movement out of it.

Liquid robot.   simple,  but I need to test if a directional network can do it myself,  to form a proper insect like movement, (because the slime has a bit of collected gait it has to develop to move) not just a simple little car just turning left and right.

But its one activation the same,  melt and solidify.

[Korrelan]

Regarding smoking, the method I used to quit was to progressively add more filters to my rollups over a long period.  Start with one, then after a few months move to two etc, by the time you get to four filters, there's so little tobacco... you can just stop.