Bernard Hughes wrote:
You need to take a look at this project:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~robodyne/stellar/
This is really a huge lego project, with implications in space
conquest, medecine, machinery, etc, possibly a universal machine...
Manu.
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> Hara Ra wrote:
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> > I've been on tours of a number of manufacturing plants. There are a lot of
> > ways to guarantee that a part is identified by type and properly oriented
> > and positioned. For example, with LEGOs, put a steel BB into the center of
> > each block. An arm with an electromagnet can pick up blocks and drop them
> > into a sorting hopper. Once the Lego Block is lying on its side, the bar
> > code can be read by a supermarket scanner which is orientation independent.
> > Unidentified blocks go back to the hopper for another try. Identified
> > blocks are handled according to their type.
> >
>
> Hmm. Maybe Lego blocks have more potential than I thought. Don't have time to try
> this out right now though. Pity.