Re: Cryonet Message #10564 - nanoassembly

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:43:04 -0700

At 10:42 PM 10/15/98 -02-30, Bernard Hughes wrote:

>> The next Lego problem is to eliminate the major non-Lego components,
>
> Sounds pretty ambitious for a first attempt. It seems to me a macro scale
>assembler would be very useful.

I agree that it is ambitious. However, building the components needed to pickup and join Lego blocks should be feasible with a limited budget. I have no objection to placing something on the blocks to identify their types, such as the barcodes you suggest. The idea is a low cost approach which is affordable for amateur nanotechnolgists. And, of course, to identify the higher level problems which as yet remain undiscovered.

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