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Re: Building a computer from Lego's
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:24:28 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, David Eaton writes:

Of
course, I seem to remember that Mario Ferrari (I think it was him?) built
one using an RCX-- does that count? ;)

It was Mario and Marco Beri, they had it with them at Mindfest.  I don't know
if Mario's brother Gulio had any input into it, so if I'm leaving him out
accidentally don't hit me.

eric



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  Re: Building a computer from Lego's
 
Well I guess we are using the term "computer" a little loosely. But if it could play tic-tac-toe then it made decisions based variable input, thats kind of like a computer. And using an RCX would definitely NOT count. Bob (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)

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(...) play tic-tac-toe, made out of tinkertoys... but generally, I think of computers as... I dunno... kinda having a 'processing' stage to them... Or maybe it's that the programs are interchangeable... dunno... Maybe it was a computer... hmm... But (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)

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