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challenge: LEGO copier
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lugnet.robotics
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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
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| (...) 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
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| (...) 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)
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