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Re: A Beautiful Machine prototype and perhaps a challenge/idea
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Date: 
Fri, 12 May 2006 22:57:51 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Rafe Donahue wrote:
[snip]
> 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.
> 
> The trick is that the machine is actually off at the end of the cycle,
> not just in a low power monitoring mode.

[snip]

> 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.
> 
> Or maybe a beautiful machine as part of the GBC.
> 
> Or maybe a chain of machines that simply turn on the next one and then
> turn themselves off.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Rafe
[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



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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 (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)  

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