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RE: Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:26:06 GMT
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Tac Tacelosky/Smokefree DC <tac@cheztac.com(antispam)>
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I think the site would be more valuable if it focused JUST on GBC. I
gave up on it as a resource after poking around and not finding
sufficient GBC information. I'm a complete newbie, no real idea what
GBC is. The front page says "It can't be explained, you have to see it
for yourself."
So I went to the video page, to see it for myself.
http://www.greatballcontraption.com/videos.html
The #1 video is the standard NXT demonstration, completely unrelated to
GBC. I sorta lost interest after that. I had been expecting to see some
new cool GBC NXT project, and saw a vanilla video I've already seen
before.
Philosophically, I think the idea of a GBC site is a good one, but in
this case, I think less is more. Anything not GBC should be removed, or
clearly indicated as non-relevant (and linked to an external site).
As for this list, I hope a separate NXT list emerges, run by someone who
will allow the subject line to include a prefix. Of the 30 lists I
subscribe to, this is the only one that doesn't prepend the subject with
a list indicator, and I'm wary of spending my time opening messages with
subjects like "Phil's Photos!", given the enormous amount of SPAM I also
have to deal with.
While I don't expect to buy a shirt or mug, I would definitely go out of
my way to see GBC's at BrickFest. I recently built a VEX robot to pick
up and dispense ping pong balls, and have a new-found appreciation for
the difficulty involved.
Tac
-----Original Message-----
From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com] On Behalf
Of Dave Hurley
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:34 AM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Great Ball Contraption
In lugnet.robotics, David Hurley wrote:
> Greetings all,
> I am helping out planning for the GBC event at Brickfest this year and
> I have a couple questions for the community:
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> 1. Is there enough interest to warrant our own t-shirt/mug sales at • the event?
> 2. Should I bring a bunch to the event to sell to those interested?
> (Go here to
> see...http://www.cafepress.com/ballcontraption)
> 3. If #1 and #2 above are lukewarm to non-existent, what would the
> community like to see?
> 4. I am devising a full-blown mindstorms/gbc/NXT discussions forum and
> am almost ready for deployment. Should I continue or are most people
> happy to stick with Lugnet.robotics, etc.?
>
> I am aware of diverse opinions on this last point. Some said wait
> until NXT is released, others said lugnet is fine. Sue herself has
> said basically wait and see, but its basically fine as is. It struck
> me as needed due to the biased nature of the traffic volume in the
> various subgoups. In other words I think that NXT discussions will
> drown out traffic in whatever groups that its currently posted in.
>
> David Hurley
> www.greatballcontraption.com
OK...Does the community care one bit about my efforts to centralize GBC
at all?
I would like to think that I haven't been wasting my time for the past
few months. I will take zero responses to this post as a 'no'.
Dave
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