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Subject: 
challenge: LEGO copier
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Date: 
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:01:32 GMT
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Here's an idea I am certainly not equipped to attempt, but I bet
somebody is...

The user builds some model (constraints: it must be composed of a 1x1,
1x2, and 1x4 bricks in a selection of several colors, and must be flat,
i.e. two-dimensional, and fit within a certain width and height).  User
then places this model into the LEGO robot, which churns away, and then
spits out the original model plus an exact duplicate of it.

I believe this is possible, given the constraints.  It sure would make a
great demo at a brick show, too.  Somebody please do it so this idea
doesn't haunt me for years!

Best,
- Joe

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Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: challenge: LEGO copier
 
(...) Ugh. Much harder than it sounds: either the robot needs extreme visual acuity to spot the brick boundaries (so it can tell two 1x2 bricks of the same color end-to-end from a single 1x4 brick... or, more importantly, which order a 1x1 and a 1x4 (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: challenge: LEGO copier
 
(...) The closest I got to something like that was my half-built Duck Assembly Carousel - a dial automation with 4 positions, which would assemble the body (2x1 inverted slope), beak (2x1 plate), and head (1x1 brick with a hole in it). I didn't have (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: challenge: LEGO copier
 
I think you should start easy, with something like a mosaic copier. (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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