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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:55:14 GMT
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news-gateway@lugnet.com wrote on 01/07/2005 04:11:02 PM:
> > Should extra width be reserved around the in basket to
> > allow space for some sort of container to fit over the
> > basket with room for, say, tipping?
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> At this point no - for one thing, the upstream module dumping
> needs only have
> an output 6 studs wide or so to make sure it all goes into the
> downstream input
> hopper. The only place I see a strong need for such "extra space" is if • one
> robot tries dumping a standard crate into another standard crate (and in • the
> Type I standard, we're avoiding the whole issue).
This was my *exact* reason for asking: tipping containers. If the tip
left to right (from their space to the next module's space), there is no
need for extra width: you steal it from your own space.. But if they tip
from front to back (or some other sort of, say, flat rotation of a square
shape), there is.
But that's what Type II is for, I guess...
Tim Massey
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| (...) In our test, when people dump, they usually dump onto a ramp in their own module, that drains onto the next module. Like on John's back hoe: (URL) you can see, it hangs over it's neighbor a bit. Of course, if you ass-u-me anything about the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) In addition, there's an actual *reason* why that is set up that way. Can you picture trying to set up a large scale GBC if we need a certain number of "turns" and "straights"? There could also be interference issues if the rear of the GBC line (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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