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| (...) That was from LEGOWorld, October 2003 in Holland. It was an automated car assembly line, consisting of RCX controlled work carriers that travelled from cell to cell across a number of cells. Each cell had a selection of parts that it added in (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yep Larry is right. It was a great piece of arts. It was actually built by two dutch guys: Martijn Boogaarts and Gerrit Bronsveld. Correct me if I'm wrong but it used 23 RCXes!! Unfortunately it didn't work flawless but I think the main reason (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) is (...) they (...) (Thanks Larry and Nate for the background on this project!) You have to undestand how inspirational this is to me. For the past few years, on-and-off I am working on building a little LEGO duck assembly carousel. I haven't (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I'm not sure I agree with that. There were, as I recall, some difficult insertion steps but overall, it seemed buildable. The root problem in my view is just that the mean time to failure of individual constructed components (given reliability (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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