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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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Sat, 8 Jan 2005 00:09:54 GMT
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> news-gateway@lugnet.com wrote on 01/07/2005 04:11:02 PM:
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> > > Should extra width be reserved around the in basket to
> > > allow space for some sort of container to fit over the
> > > basket with room for, say, tipping?
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> > At this point no - for one thing, the upstream module dumping
> > needs only have
> > an output 6 studs wide or so to make sure it all goes into the
> > downstream input
> > hopper. The only place I see a strong need for such "extra space" is if • one
> > robot tries dumping a standard crate into another standard crate (and in • the
> > Type I standard, we're avoiding the whole issue).
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> This was my *exact* reason for asking: tipping containers. If the tip
> left to right (from their space to the next module's space), there is no
> need for extra width: you steal it from your own space.. But if they tip
> from front to back (or some other sort of, say, flat rotation of a square
> shape), there is.
In our test, when people dump, they usually dump onto a ramp in their own module,
that drains onto the next module. Like on John's back hoe:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1049775
As you can see, it hangs over it's neighbor a bit.
Of course, if you ass-u-me anything about the neighboring modules you could run into
problems.
But, again with the flexibility of arranging modules, we'll be able to work around
most problems.
Steve
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| Steve Hassenplug writes: > As you can see, it hangs over it's neighbor a bit. > > Of course, if you ass-u-me anything about the neighboring modules > you could run into problems. You can assume anything that's in the specification! Speaking of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| news-gateway@lugnet.com wrote on 01/07/2005 04:11:02 PM: (...) one (...) the (...) This was my *exact* reason for asking: tipping containers. If the tip left to right (from their space to the next module's space), there is no need for extra width: (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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