Subject:
|
Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:36:19 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Rob Limbaugh <rlimbaugh@^nospam^greenfieldgroup.com>
|
Viewed:
|
779 times
|
| |
|
|
<SNIP>
> > Reading memory would require something like a bank of switches that are
> > flipped
> > by the push-rods or pegs that are protruding far enough.
> >
> > Writing RAM memory could be done by pistons forming the output of gates
> > simply
> > pushing against the movable axles from one side or the other of the • memory
> > cell.
>
> Actually, I was thinking that what you could do is make LEGO-ish (maybe
> one dimensional) "punch cards". And any program's output would be
What about 1x1 beams for a ROM punch card? Of course, combinations of 1x2
beams with 2 holes could be used, as well.
For RAM (at least an all LEGO solution), I can envision a memory "drum".
When bits are to be written, technic pins are placed in beam holes. One
side of the drum would be the "write" head, the other side the "read" head
using a levered mechanism... the first LEGO "hard drive".
- Rob
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
|
| (...) I think that it is harder to make a machine that pops a pin into a hole than it is to make a machine that pushes a pin though a 1x2 beam with axle hole. The axles never leave the hole. You just have to slide them to one side of the brick to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
|
| (...) I thought so too, so I designed one. See elsewhere in this thread. (...) Yeah, I thought so too. (...) This is almost exactly what I was envisioning!!! Cool. Glad to know I'm not the only one psychotic enough to come up with a cockamamy idea. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
|
9 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
