CORTEX BRAIN BREADBOARD IN A TRAY PART 51
EACH TRAY HOLDS A BRAIN CORTEX
Take a plastic veggi and rice food tray and recycle it for constructing solderless breadboard brains. The advantage is it holds all the tiny parts and the breadboard, and assembly can take place inside the tray without misplacing and losing any parts. Additionally, the trays holds all the parts collected for assembly, so access to assembly parts is swift. An assembly line could distribute completed parts trays. The photo shows a brain cortex being assembled inside the tray. The jar at left is waiting for the electric brain board.
The tray is ideal for assembly of multiple brain boards. Note the tray holds a double wide breadboard which can hold two Parallax Propeller chips or 16 computers. Also a chip for EEPROM memory can be included with each board. At right is a solar panel. Assembly hints: move the board to the left side and deposit parts on the right side. Another tray can hold assembly tools like a wire strippers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, and meter.
Index to the Brain Cortex
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-index-part-16.html
BRAIN CORTEX UPDATE
PART 23
Wednesday November 6th 2013
The state of the Cortex is doing well. We currently have all the parts we think are needed for main assembly. The Propeller chip circuit is expanded. It will take longer to build the complete circuits and do testing.
MOTHERBOARD
The main board is now partially assembled due to the decision to add more circuits and make more changes.
ROUND ROBIN
The round robin arrangement of batteries is being worked out. The idea is to mount ten individual holders without compromising the strength of the jar and maintaining the ability to reach in and change one or more batteries.
DUAL FUNCTIONS
The single board, Propeller driven, will have dual functions. One is for mind functioning. Two is for testing and sensors.
OPTIONS
The Cortex will have options installed: LED, speaker, CaS photo cell. The control panel is currently in the design stage.
DUPE CORTEX
It's decided a Dupe Cortex will be constructed for machine brain to machine brain transfer. This is like a mind meld that backs up data and consciousness the main cortex has. This will ensure the longevity of the cortex whose objective is achieving a kind of immortality.
SOLAR PANELS
Two solar panels are now obtained, one for the main brain cortex and one for the Dupe Cortex and experiments/testing.
EEPROM
It was discovered the main board lacks EEPROM so this will need to be installed. Parts on hand will be used and this includes a 32K chip.
MEMORY
There is some thought about adding a second 32K chip, bringing the memory total up to 32K ROM, 32K RAM, 32K First EEPROM and 32K 2nd EEPROM. This may or may not happen on the next larger cortex.
CORTEX SCHEMATIC
Work is going well on the cortex schematic which is now entering v1.6.
MIND MELD
Main Brain Cortex and Dupe Cortex are designed to mind meld, i.e. transfer the mind of the first to the mind of the second. This ensures longevity and possible immortality.
IMMORTALITY
There may be different definitions of immortal and immortality within this project. Longevity of life may have variance of how far an entity travels forward in time based on the time flow with the passage of events.
TIME TRAVEL TRANSITION LINE
There's a transition line that occurs as the brain cortex time travels into the future, whereby a leap of technology greatly exceeds the brain. There are great ramifications to this effect.
Index to the Brain Cortex
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-index-part-16.html
INTRODUCING THE DUPE BRAIN CORTEX
BRAIN CORTEX DATA SURVIVAL INSURANCE PART 22
You go along your merry way and half into the year your trusty machine brain companion goes "bloop!" and suddenly dies! ARGH! What to do???
As this project is all about survival, life, longevity, and immortality, it's important for the brain cortex to have some kind of insurance and assurance against a fatality.
Ensuring survival can be as simple as having a twin dupe brain - one that's nearly identical in every way, for brain to brain transfer which can serve as a backup or an actual machine replacement.
A smaller dupe is possible, taking up less space, just to temp transfer and hold the brain's mind until the original brain is repaired. This could run on two AA batteries and a smaller mAh rating power circuit and solar panel.
The Dupe Cortex has an open mind with no stored program, as it's ready for a machine brain transfer from another cortex. The actual details of the brain transfer are not yet worked out. There are several contentions, for example, the original EEPROM could be plug n play and transferred to the new vessel or a special program could read the entire original memory and code area and have it transferred to a new EEPROM.
Index to the Brain Cortex
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-index-part-16.html
