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Re: Anybody want to invest in my idea?
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Date: 
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:50:49 GMT
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Adrian Drake <tremor@apk.net> writes:
Here's the concept.   Take a warehouse and install a sorting machine • there,
one that can sort by weight, size, and color.  Match it with a piece
database and fuzzy matching software.  What you end up with is this:  You
dump a bunch of pieces into the hopper.  The machine then sorts each
individual piece out, counts it, individually bags it, and labels each bag
with the count and parts database ref number.  All you'd do is ship your
container of loose lego (we would even process unopened sets for you) and
we'd send you a box of sorted, labelled lego bags.

What, no disassembly of partially assembled chunks of brick?  So have you
started designing the machine yet? :)  Will weight and size be sufficient to
sort the parts?  I think designing a sorting machine for Eric Harshbarger
(or for your own sculptural endeavors) would be easier than designing a
sorter for the general LEGO (ab)user.  Otherwise, the sheer amount of bins
for different parts would be overwhelming.
--Bram

This is what 4 hours of sleep does...

Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://bldesign.org/



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  Re: Anybody want to invest in my idea?
 
(...) What the 6000 different elements would be too much? Yeah, you're probably right. Once I get the investment capital, then I'll start worrying about the details :) Adrian (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Anybody want to invest in my idea?
 
(...) (URL) ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / www.ericharshbarger.org "Oh please, if people are going to start telling the truth around here... I'm going to bed." - Jackie-O (Parker Posey, THE HOUSE OF YES) ---...--- (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)

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Here's the concept. Take a warehouse and install a sorting machine there, one that can sort by weight, size, and color. Match it with a piece database and fuzzy matching software. What you end up with is this: You dump a bunch of pieces into the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)

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