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Re: A Beautiful Machine prototype and perhaps a challenge/idea
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Fri, 12 May 2006 12:51:36 GMT
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My prototype Lego Beautiful Machine can be found on brickshelf when
moderated (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=182772).

Very nice machine, I especially appreciated the windup motor trick (always
wanted to do something with them, preferably odd and interesting!)

Philo



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  Re: A Beautiful Machine prototype and perhaps a challenge/idea
 
(...) 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, (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  A Beautiful Machine prototype and perhaps a challenge/idea
 
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 (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)  

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