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RE: Lego Breaks
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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:58:59 GMT
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Wilcox, Doug <doug.wilcox@medivation.comAVOIDSPAM>
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That's funny--I didn't remember that the Lego privileges [It's darned
awkward at times to construct sentences without using the word _Legos_!]
were taken away ... just the fact that all the engineers were into them.
We are a fairly small company (or division), with only about 25 people, and
quirkiness isn't exactly discouraged. Our CTO's response was, "Cool!" So I'm
not _really_ having to defend myself ... but I was interested in finding
that article for anecdotal references.
As for me, I'm using my lunch hour to build. Among other things, it's giving
me a perspective of how long it takes to construct a decent 'bot. So far day
one was spent on the basic chassis and day two on mounting a sensor-equipped
bumper.
I'm on carpet, which makes using a rear caster tricky (the 'bot has trouble
straightening out). Seems that using as narrow a wheel as possible seems to
work better. Any other ideas about improving its performance?
Doug Wilcox
Senior Web Developer
iMcKesson Provider Solutions Group-Needham
"You see, I had this space suit. How it happened was like this ..."
(Opening lines from Robert A. Heinlein's _Have Space Suit--Will Travel_)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Wyckoff [mailto:wyckoff@clearway.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:48 PM
To: Chris Osborn; lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Lego Breaks
At 9:42 AM -0700 8/17/2000, Chris Osborn wrote:
> > ``I had to make an office rule,'' he told Fortune Magazine last
> > summer. ``No Lego playing during work hours.''
>
> Well at my company it was the complete opposite. About half of my
> Lego collection is out there now. I didn't want to bring it there,
> but after 2 weeks of the company president insisting I bring it
> out, I finally caved.
And what exactly are "work hours" anyway? The software engineers in
my company work well beyond traditional work hours, so its hard to
say they can't play with Legos between 9 and 5 if they are also
working to midnight often :)
-Ben
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Ben Wyckoff wyckoff@clearway.com
Principal Engineer
ClearWay Technologies, LLC. www.clearway.com
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -
only I don't exactly know what they are!"
Lewis Carroll, Alice, Through The Looking Glass
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| in article 85669FE51E37D411B979...ation.com, Wilcox, Doug at lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote on 8/17/00 10:58 AM: (...) Why not try getting rid of the caster altogether and use a skid? On short-pile carpet it might work better, and it should (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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