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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:31:38 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail+SayNoToSpam+.net>
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steve krass wrote:
> Best idea I have seen in a while.
> Will be quite a machine when done.
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> You should try to paint or die a few balls a different
> color so spectators can follow a particular ball thruoghout the whole machine.
Having different coloured balls would also be cool because it would allow
machines to do things like sorting them so that one colour does one thing
and another colour does something different.
Mixing soccer and basket balls would let people do that and yet still
preserve Lego 'purity'.
However, introducing coloured balls isn't something you can 'just do'
without warning people because they may be relying on light sensor
readings to do specific things with them.
Another thought I had was that the organisers might want to consider
building a stage that has one input hopper and TWO outputs that sends
balls alternately to the two places. This would allow you to take
any machines that cause problems because they don't run fast enough
and put them after this special stage so they don't mess up the whole
timing of the system.
You'd also need to build a machine to combine two slow streams back into
a single 'standard rate' stream sometime later.
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| In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote <snip> (...) That's a just a cool idea in general, to have a branching arrangement. Maybe some 'special' builders could produce modules that either divide or recombine streams? I am really (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| Steve Baker writes: > Another thought I had was that the organisers might want to consider > building a stage that has one input hopper and TWO outputs that sends > balls alternately to the two places. Yes! Since the soccer and basket balls are the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| Best idea I have seen in a while. Will be quite a machine when done. You should try to paint or die a few balls a different color so spectators can follow a particular ball thruoghout the whole machine. Good luck guys. (19 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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