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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:15:55 GMT
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Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com!SayNoToSpam!>
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Steve Hassenplug writes:
> As you can see, it hangs over it's neighbor a bit.
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> 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
which, you should probably add a requirement that the top of the input
bin must always be unobstructed. That is, the output part of a module
gets to do anything it wants with the space over the input part of the
next module.
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| (...) Instead of that, just make sure that your module delivers through the "side" of the downstream module's territory. In other words, using a chute (even a very short one) is a pretty easy solution. And that way the standard isn't further (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) 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: (URL) you can see, it hangs over it's neighbor a bit. Of course, if you ass-u-me anything about the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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