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| The world's first Supertronic exoskeleton built without board stacking. Boards live on the outside shell for ease of wiring and processor access. These are the guts of the new Supertronic BoeBot created by Humanoido. Boards are connected in three dimensions with four sides using Parallax Propeller chip development boards and solderless breadboards. Image by Humanoido in 2010. |
with 20,640 Brains
Since the creation of the Smartest BoeBot robot machine, the Big Brain Propeller project has reached a level of semi cognizance and heralded in the new invention of the SuperTronic machine. The Propeller SuperTronic technique allows the creation of faster machines with more processors and fewer chips.
Designed and built by Humanoido
Therefore, the results of these studies and experiments can now be applied to a new "Smartest BoeBot" with more capability. Also, since the time of the original "Smartest BoeBot," new inventive software was created for parallel Propeller machines, and this can also add features to a new Smartest Boebot. The SuperTronic BoeBot has fewer chips but more processors, and has different intelligence compared to the previous Smartest BoeBot.
The preliminary design is a bigger newer smarter Smartest Boebot in the works using a new concept that does not use stacking. Twenty boards are arranged according to an exoskeleton and placed on top of the new Boebot robot platform along with a BS2 board for various compatibilities. Exoskeleton boards face the outside where wiring is easily reached. This arrangement is great for creating various wiring and rewiring for changing experiments. Advantages here are easy access to the wiring on the outside and all the extra space is usable on the inside of the hollow exo. Now for some numbers, which are all relative of course. The plateau reached is a completely new 54,400 MIPS design for the exo with 21 boards, which allows it to hold a standard cache of 20 Propeller chips, 160 cogs, and approximately 20,640 total processors using techniques of the Big Brain SuperTronic Era (not counting any BASIC Stamps used in the BoeBot design).
SuperTronic BoeBot Specifications
20 x 0001 = 20 Parallax 32-Bit 8-Core Propeller chips
20 x 2720 = 54,400 MIPS Relative Speed
20 x 1032 = 20,640 Total Computer Processors
20 x 1000 = 20,000 VIP processors, Threaded+Deterministic Parallel
20 x 0016 = 320 Counter Processors
20 x 0008 = 160 Cogs (RISC Processors)
20 x 0008 = 160 Generator Processors
20 x 0032 = 640 Ports
20 x 064K = 1,280K RAM/ROM
Specifications
Platform: Parallax BoeBot Robot
Interface: Parallel Processing
Projected Software: Loader, Learner, Roamer, Seeker, Avoider, Talker
Software - SPIN, PBASIC
Functions: Explores randomly, seeks light, avoids light, talks, learns, remembers, total recall
About the Exo
The Exo can have four sides, but usually a slot or two is open on one side to reach into the center for mounting of other components and expansions. Boards connect with simple nuts, bolts and angle iron. Use nylon bolts, nuts, and phenolic washers to reduce weight. Finished wiring can have a Seran type plastic wrap to ensure wires do not disconnect or dislodge. The Exo is not heavier or lighter than a Stack. The Exo advantages of easy access are great and it opens up center line space for upgrades and peripherals. At the base of this space, more batteries could ensure the elimination of the tether and make the new Smartest BoeBot more autonomous.
Links
www.parallax.com
http://www.parallax.com
SuperTronic Brain
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/09/supertronic-brain.html
SuperTronic Brain Era
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/09/supertronic-brain-era.html
Era
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/01/big-brain-era.html
Smartest BoeBot
https://humanoidslabs.blogspot.com/2020/03/smartest-boebot-robot.html
https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2010/07/smartest-boebot.html
Parallax BoeBot Robot
http://www.parallax.com/Store/Robots/AllRobots/tabid/128/CategoryID/3/List/0/SortField/0/Level/a/ProductID/296/Default.aspx
Robotics with the Boe-Bot Text v3.0 (.pdf)
http://www.parallax.com/Portals/0/Downloads/docs/books/edu/Roboticsv3_0.pdf
BOE USB Schematic (.pdf)
http://www.parallax.com/Portals/0/Downloads/docs/prod/robo/BOEUSBSchem.PDF
