Nematoduino
Hardware
robotics
SHOW HN2017
101points
14comments
#453of 2,242 in 2017
Top 21%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool and organic-looking behaviour for a simple robot
From 2 comments
Now, it's just a short loop, but the gif in the project repo seems remarkably organic when compared to a similar bot that just uses 20ish lines of code to turn at walls. It even…
mrguyorama on HNOne step closer to Ghost in the Shell! Great work, and seems like a very good learning device. Can't wait for more complicated organisms to be mapped and more complex sensors and…
have_faith on HN
Good learning device
From 1 comment
One step closer to Ghost in the Shell! Great work, and seems like a very good learning device. Can't wait for more complicated organisms to be mapped and more complex sensors and…
have_faith on HN
Objections
Not what one commenter expected from the title
From 1 comment
I was expecting a worm that would infect computers that tried to program Arduinos and then would infect more Arduinos. The actual content is cool in its own right, just not at…
thethirdone on HN
Requests
Add visual stimulus handling to the connectome
From 1 comment
Thanks for reminding me this exists.. It's cool but something about it still makes my hair stand on end. I wonder would it be possible to build onto worm connectome? add ways for…
lawlessone on HN
Add more complex sensors and electronics
From 1 comment
One step closer to Ghost in the Shell! Great work, and seems like a very good learning device. Can't wait for more complicated organisms to be mapped and more complex sensors and…
have_faith on HN
Questions
Does it learn or self-reinforce?
From 1 comment
Is it self-reinforcing/learning, by any chance?
pmarreck on HN
What does the model do, does it seek chemotaxis stimuli?
From 1 comment
As somebody with no idea how nematodes work, what does this model do? Does it basically try and find things that stimulate the chemotaxis neurons?
fenwick67 on HN
Alternatives named
Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoises
From 2 comments
Semi-related, I was reading a book called Wetware - A computer in every living cell, and it mentions about William Grey Walter, who created simple robot 'tortoises'. There's some…
anfractuosity on HN> I'm just trying to find some schematics at the moment, it sounds like they used vacuum tubes. Yes - vacuum tubes and relays, cds cells (or maybe selenium cells). Transistors…
cr0sh on HN
OpenWorm project
From 1 comment
It looks like it's using the neural map from http://www.openworm.org/ to drive the robot around. What researchers have done is made a complete connection map of all the neurons…
simcop2387 on HN