This will cause the robot to poke a small hole in the ground, proceed to the seed bowl, suck up a seed and desposit it back into the previously dug hole. The Tele-Garden is a community project where users interact not only with the garden but amounst themselves . The project was created to push the possibility of web interaction using customizable user options, chat areas, garden movie making, web cameras, etc. The Tele-Garden continues to evolve. New seasons were initiated in January and April.
Activity is recorded in logs so that the cooperative can be self-governing.
The Mercury Project, completed in April 95 by some members of this team and others, used an industrial robot to permit remote excavation of a sand-filled archaeological site. Such hunting and gathering is characteristic of existing Internet protocols. We are grateful for the support of the USC Annenberg Center for Communications, USC School of Engineering, Adept Technology, Inc. and the Ars Electronica Center . When viewing the garden for the first time, press HELP at any time for instructions.