At 08:00 PM 10/3/98 -0500, Doug wrote:
>On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>> We start a little movement, people fall in behind it, it grows, and BAM!,
>> homebrew is chic again!
>
>I doubt it. The homebrew/hobbyist movement had a very compelling driving
>force: just about the only way to get your own computer was to built it
>yourself. That's no longer true. But there is a pretty strong homebrew
>aircraft movement, and it also still makes sense for robotics.
Do remember however, to a large extent a 'robot' is just a computer on
wheels with some very unusual peripherals... B^}
-jim
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