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Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 5 Sep 2006 23:55:11 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> "Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> writes:
> > In lugnet.robotics, Juergen Stuber wrote:
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> > > how about Google Video?
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> > Done.
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> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2516315641149449280&hl=en
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> Thanks, got it.
> It was quite an impressive array of modules.
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> I wonder where the trains got emptied,
> and if there ever was an overflow in some module,
> given the enormous number of balls?
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> Cheers
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> Jürgen
That got me thinking...we had a few ball counters going: Rafe's impressive
digital counter, Greg's analog one, and Brian's optical one in the "penalty box"
with all of my modules (heh heh). My question is this: is there agreement on
what the final ball tally was? We had two loops effectively running so there
would be two separate counts.
Dave H.
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| (...) Actually, my counter was mechanical, in that each ball temporarily opened a normally closed touch sensor, and the RCX was just counting touches. For an optical one, you can use a ball breaking a lightbeam (two light sensors pointed at each (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It was quite an impressive array of modules. I wonder where the trains got emptied, and if there ever was an overflow in some module, given the enormous number of balls? Cheers Jürgen (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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