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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:02:55 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net#AvoidSpam#>
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tmassey@obscorp.com wrote:
> Or not: leave the standard as it is (except for specifying that the space
> above the input belongs to the previous module), and have the organizers
> build (or specificially request) out-of-spec modules to accomplish this.
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> That way, you don't have to worry about too many Y's and not enough
> straight pieces! :)
Yeah - I agree. You need the 'average builder' to stick to a simple
straight-line standard one-size-fits-all module. If you don't then
everyone will want to build something esoteric and you'll get hardly
any simple modules of the kind that make this work.
I think that the organisers would be VERY wise to take a long a couple
of Y modules of their own design so that people who contribute machines
that are too slow don't cause a build-up of balls on their input side
and foul up the whole system. Those slower modules could be placed
downstream of a 'Y' module and thus keep working.
There is more than enough scope for innovation within the standard
specification to keep even the most sophisticated builder busy.
The art here for the average contributor is to make something that
fits within the basic rules and yet produces such an AMAZING show
that the audience will be crowding around that module going "Ooooh!"
throughout the show.
However, I imagine that the organisers need to break the rules for
their own work in order to be able to make the system continue to
play nicely even in the (likely) event that some of the modules
are balky.
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| Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> wrote on 01/09/2005 04:20:10 PM: (...) Or not: leave the standard as it is (except for specifying that the space above the input belongs to the previous module), and have the organizers build (or specificially (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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