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    MOC: Brick mixer —Philippe Hurbain
   You will find the Brick mixer at (URL) device reads a value on a card, then an arm places colored bricks picked from four feeders on a conveyor belt, ordered according the value read. You will find here photos, films, code and full building (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) ! 
   
        Re: MOC: Brick mixer —Amnon Silverstein
   This is so close to being a Turing machine. If it could pick and place from its own card stack, you'd have a really cool general-purpose computer system! (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: MOC: Brick mixer —Philippe Hurbain
   You're right... But there are quite a few practical issues to address, specially the exact position of bricks on the "Turing strip" to be able to pick them... That strip should also be much longer for any "practical" use (and I'm running short of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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