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Re: A Beautiful Machine prototype and perhaps a challenge/idea
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 12 May 2006 22:57:51 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Rafe Donahue wrote:
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> When a user turns on the machine by moving a switch at the top of the
> tower, the motor raises the scissors arm to shut it off. That's it.
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> The trick is that the machine is actually off at the end of the cycle,
> not just in a low power monitoring mode.
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> So, the challenge or idea: a room full of beautiful machines at
> brickfest, a room full of machines that simply turn themselves off once
> they have been turned on.
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> Or maybe a beautiful machine as part of the GBC.
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> Or maybe a chain of machines that simply turn on the next one and then
> turn themselves off.
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> Thoughts?
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> Rafe
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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
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