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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:20:10 GMT
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Russell Nelson <NELSON@CRYNWR.nomorespamCOM>
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Steve Baker writes:
> 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.
Yes! Since the soccer and basket balls are the same physical size,
there is no reason why a module can't work with both. There is also
no reason why a module couldn't sort soccer balls out one side, and
basketballs out another.
To that end, you need a specification for a "Y" module, which has two
output faces. Also for a module which has two input faces! And a
module which is a 90-turning corner and a 270-turning corner. It's
pretty obvious what's needed for them; it just needs to be written down.
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| (...) I made a device that sends balls alternately down two chutes. Balls enter through a 2x2 hole in the top, onto the centre of a 7L studless beam, set up as a see-saw. Which ever way a ball goes, it drops onto another, longer, see-saw that tilts (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> wrote on 01/09/2005 04:20:10 PM: (...) Or not: leave the standard as it is (except for specifying that the space above the input belongs to the previous module), and have the organizers build (or specificially (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Having different coloured balls would also be cool because it would allow machines to do things like sorting them so that one colour does one thing and another colour does something different. Mixing soccer and basket balls would let people do (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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