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Re: Crate Contraption Standard
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lugnet.org.us.smart
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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:25:02 GMT
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David,
Thanks for the input.
I think the goal for the Great Ball Contraption will be different from your
Crate Contraption for a couple reasons.
For example, I don't expect this to run constantly. I'm hoping we'll be able to
make it work for "Feeding Time" in the Mindstorms room, which may only last for
an hour. And, during that time, I hope all the builders will be watching their
own modules.
The current format (not yet posted) should allow us to set-up the whole
contraption, with very little pre-planning. I'm hoping we'll only need to know
the width of the module in advance, and not know much about what it does, or how
it does it.
Finally, I'm hoping for quantity. Even if it's at the expence of quality. If a
feeder jams once in a while, there should be someone right there to poke the
balls loose. If a line-follower, doesn't, there should be someone to catch it,
as it leaves the table.
But, if we can build a Great Ball Contraption at Brickfest that's made up of 20
different modules built by AFoLs from all over the country (world?), that would
be cool... :)
That's what we're hoping for.
Steve
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| (...) I've been quite busy recently, and so haven't had a chance to participate in this discussion until now. Pardon the long post, but it'll answer many of the questions and give details about SMART's own quest for a module standard. As Mark said, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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