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Re: Group project: RCX units run emergence simulation
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lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date: 
Mon, 23 May 2005 16:20:53 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

haven't you and your cohorts (Hi Brian!)

   Hi! Cool. Now I'm a cohort ;-)

been busily proving that there hasn't yet been a
mechanism that NEEDED an RCX?

   Well, sort of... the robotic forklift I brought to HoB is currently the most
complex module (that I *know* about) that requires an RCX, but there are some
other options. A ball-sorting mechanism is something I've played with, but not
built into a module yet. Steve & I have also tossed around the idea of a GBC
module that plays a game with the spectators (using balls plucked from the
stream to play Tic-Tac-Toe, for instance).

Brian was claiming that a sufficiently clever
mechanical engineer could do that one without
an RCX either....

   Yeah, but I didn't say I had done it yet :-). One solution is to elevate the
track, but we don't want to make the train(s) any more complicated.

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: Group project: RCX units run emergence simulation
 
(...) Right, but haven't you and your cohorts (Hi Brian!) been busily proving that there hasn't yet been a mechanism that NEEDED an RCX? Most of the GBC modules are (brilliantly, elegantly...) purely mechanical except for the train ball return, and (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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