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Computer scientists might know of Claude E. Shannon, considered the father of digital communication. He is also less well known for his Most Beautiful Machine, a machine that, when turned on, simply turns itself off. (A version can be viewed online (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very interesting, if a rather disturbing implementation. I had heard of the conecpt, but not seen those vids. The prosthetic is just a big creepy. (...) I like your version, first its more cute and friendly, and secondly you can see the (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> It is slightly more complicated than that. In order to make it go up slow enough to be interesting, I had to gear down the speed of the motor. As such I go from 8 teeth (I think) on the motor to the big 40 (?) teeth on the (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very nifty! Another way would be to have a second switch that is on except when the scissors are at the bottom, and wire it in parallel with the activation switch. Sorta like how they get car windscreen wipers to always go back to the right (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Turning itself off is a feature? ;oP I've spent a lot of time making pneumatic circuits that accidntally shut themselves off..... LOL! Very nice! Kevin (18 years ago, 12-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Gee, I thought Bill Gates invented that? -Rob www.brickmodder.net (18 years ago, 12-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very nice machine, I especially appreciated the windup motor trick (always wanted to do something with them, preferably odd and interesting!) Philo (18 years ago, 12-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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In lugnet.robotics, Rafe Donahue wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) [snip] How about a machine that can be turned on in more than one way and it turns itself off according to which on method is chosen? Dennis (18 years ago, 12-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) In the interests of full disclosure, my original plans were to use pneumatics. But seeing as I didn't have any, I had to use something else. It was in an email exchange with Cary Clark some time ago that he mentioned that a "low-tech, (...) (18 years ago, 13-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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<snip!> (...) Oddly it seems almost all of my pneumatic ciruits end up doing that... or at least dropping to a state where they won't complete the motions and blow a hose when the pressure caps... I'd love to get an afternnon of Kevin's time some (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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