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Re: Got balls? Heads up.
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lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
Date: 
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:52:56 GMT
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On Thu, December 15, 2005 10:10 am, Chris Magno wrote:
Brian Davis wrote:
   Thanks for the heads-up, but now I'm interested in them as well. It would
make it much easier to form a module that passes soccer balls while retaining
horta eggs, for instance.

Brian, if you wanted to make a module that passes soccer, but retains
horta eggs, then you would need to make EVERY module be able to deal
with both sized balls.

Actually, it would be kind of cool to have a module that just circulates the eggs &
balls, but only passes the balls forward.  No one else has to deal with them, as
long as you don't let them out.  Sort of like this module (from Brian Davis):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1359719

The machine would have to identify 100% of the eggs, but it could mis-identify
soccer balls as eggs, and recycle them.

Steve



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  Re: Got balls? Heads up.
 
(...) That was my intention. Since the Horta eggs are slightly bigger, droping the balls onto twoproperly spaced parallel rails should work: soccer balls fall between the rails, while the horta eggs roll down the rails and back into the module. (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: Got balls? Heads up.
 
(...) Janey, thanks for playing with these new balls and telling us all about them. Brian, if you wanted to make a module that passes soccer, but retains horta eggs, then you would need to make EVERY module be able to deal with both sized balls. (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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