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Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:46:14 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Rafe Donahue wrote:
I'd build simple contraptions that aren't necessarily predictable.
Machines that move and respond are great but the fun lies in stochastic
behaviour.  I'm thinking that activities that aren't at least a little
bit random are boring.  Random variation on the part of any mechanical
device can be a clever trick to get you out of a troublesome mechanical
or programming design problem.  I'm trusting that a random number
generator is somewhere in the NXT software...

Rafe - you could have replaced that whole paragraph with a simple sentence:

"I would build GBC modules."

:)

Bryan



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  Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
 
(...) I'd build simple contraptions that aren't necessarily predictable. Machines that move and respond are great but the fun lies in stochastic behaviour. I'm thinking that activities that aren't at least a little bit random are boring. Random (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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