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Possible Mindstorms sighting?
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:13:08 GMT
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Mike Caprio <mikecap@sidehack.sat.gweep.&nospam&net>
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Don't know if MS was involved exactly, but, the concept is a neat one.
Mike
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17082.html
"Meanwhile, three teams quietly competed in a robot-building contest
in the basement. Given a few Lego kits, the teams constructed a few
rolling, navigating, and wandering machines.
Then Frank Wilde stepped forward with a Turing machine he cobbled
together with his team's leftover pieces. Wilde held up a strip of
Lego blocks with tiny black knobs sticking through a series of
holes.
'This is the data band,' he explained, 'and I can program the
machine to add, say, two and three.'
Once he fed the band into his tiny mound of Lego blocks,
enthusiastic club members rushed to the stage to watch the machine
meticulously figure out that two and three are indeed five.
Wilde was awarded the first prize by an overwhelming majority.
His Lego Turing machine is precisely the sort of spontaneous
elegant hack that the congress was called to celebrate in the
first place."
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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