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Re: Anybody want to invest in my idea?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:31:05 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Adrian Drake 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.
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> Okay then, who wants to invest? It'll be the wave of the future, I tell ya!
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> (this is what happens when I spend all weekend sorting...)
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> Adrian
> --
> www.brickfrenzy.com
I designed and built a piece sorter out of LEGO. It's the ore processor in
my Copernicus City moonbase. If you go to:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/brian_h_nielsen/moonbase/moonbase.htm
and go down to the bottom there's a link to an .MPG showing it in action.
It sorts 1x1 round plates from 1x1 round bricks.
Brian
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