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Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:31:10 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> On Thu, June 29, 2006 4:11 pm, Dave Hurley wrote:
> > I think the standard is always open for interpretation and revision, but I think
> > it's written with enough wiggle room for most situations. I think it would be
> > an accomplishment if we were able to get a large majority of people to follow
> > it!
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> This may be where some people get into trouble. The height & placement of the in &
> out baskets is a hard requirement. So is the minimum of 1 bps. People MUST follow
> the standard, in order for the GBC to work.
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> Last year at BrickFest, every one of the modules followed the standard. Some
> suffered reliability issues, but they still followed the standard.
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> Steve
I was wondering the exact same thing. For BF06 planning purposes, I was
tentatively planning on having "throughput zones" grouped according to balls per
second. The faster modules would be grouped together just as the slower ones
would be with others of similar speed. My big mama-jama module can barely do
.4bps on a sunny day. The junction between the faster to slower modules can be
regulated with what I call "leaky bucket" modules to regulate/throttle the ball
flow from faster modules to slower ones.
Dave
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) So then there are shunts needed to allow some balls to go to slow-land and some to return to fast-land, right? Is this where the train comes in? I'm thinking this adds a certain level of complexity to the whole organization process. Of course, (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) You could maybe design a special module to split the fast rate stream into some number of slower streams - to be recombined later. So if (for example), you had a bunch of 0.5bps modules, you could build two chains of them and dump alternate (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) I'm not sure this is the way to do things... I don't want to seem cruel or anything (but I will be blunt), but this module of yours doesn't meet the GBC spec of 1 bps. It is your responsibility as a builder to make it fit the spec, not change (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) This may be where some people get into trouble. The height & placement of the in & out baskets is a hard requirement. So is the minimum of 1 bps. People MUST follow the standard, in order for the GBC to work. Last year at BrickFest, every one (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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