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Re: Got balls? Heads up.
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Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:39:05 GMT
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On Thu, December 15, 2005 1:26 pm, Brian Davis wrote:
>    I had a sorter at BrickFest, but I don't know if it really got much notice -
> it could be set to concentrate basketballs out of the stream, for instance.
> 
>    Another variation I've been thinking of is detecting one single special ball
> to time how long it takes, on average, for one ball to traverse the GBC.

Oh, that would be a cool module, in addition to a ball counter.  How would you
display the time?  Is there a way to do it besides using the RCX display?

You could use the Red ball that always got stuck in your ball sorter at BrickFest...

Steve



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(...) there is some new kind of harry potter "ball" that has a magnet in it. some version of Jeff Elliots train car detector could probably pick it out for this. Anyone played with harrys ball? Chris (21 years ago, 15-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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