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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:22:59 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote
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> Another thought I had was that the organisers might want to consider
> building a stage that has one input hopper and TWO outputs that sends
> balls alternately to the two places. This would allow you to take
> any machines that cause problems because they don't run fast enough
> and put them after this special stage so they don't mess up the whole
> timing of the system.
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> You'd also need to build a machine to combine two slow streams back into
> a single 'standard rate' stream sometime later.
That's a just a cool idea in general, to have a branching arrangement. Maybe
some 'special' builders could produce modules that either divide or recombine
streams? I am really looking forward to seeing the GBC, and even though I've
never built anything like this, maybe I'll try to make a simple module. Steve,
this is a fabulous concept!
Cyndi
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