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Re: More for the Hobby Show...
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:13:49 GMT
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Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> On Fri, August 26, 2005 1:41 pm, Chris Magno wrote:
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> > as much as i ~HATE~ having to use steves idea... i like this idea a lot.
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> > Chris
> > (sigh) what next, peace in gaza? skating in hell?
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> I'm sure this is killing you.
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> Let me try to make it easier. While I did most of the posting, it was not MY idea.
> It was actually an idea from our club (LafLRC). There were five or six people who
> worked out the final spec.
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> But, it didn't start there.
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> We stole the "soccer ball" idea from SMART, the Seattle Mindstorms group. They came
> up with the idea for a Crazy Cybernetic Crate Contraption which moved crates of
> soccer & basket balls around. (I don't remember the exact name, but we can just call
> it C4)
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> Of course, you may remember they first announced the Crate Contraption about the
> same time rtl was working on Deep Yellow (the Connect Four game) or C4.
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> So, they, in fact, came up with the Crazy name, to steal the spotlight from rtl's C4
> (C$). Which clearly means it was your idea in the first place.
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> Oh, but what about the world record thing? Nope, also not our idea. I stole that
> from a group in California. http://www.playingatlearning.org/rube/index.html Of
> course, they got the idea for stringing LEGO creations from us, but then the
> stealing links back into the previous chain, that again leads back to rtl.
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> So, I have to thank you, because pretty much no matter how you look at it, the trail
> goes back to rtl, and the Connect Four game. which I won.
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> oops. sorry.
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> Steve
oh.
OK.
so the GBC is really MY idea.
ok.
Im cool with that.
thanks
Chris
ps. did my GBC idea set a world record?
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