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I wonder ... how much effort would it be to create a five foot wide spherical ball attached to a motored stand that had three doors all actuated via small servo
by pcunite 9y ago
I wonder ... how much effort would it be to create a five foot wide spherical ball attached to a motored stand that had three doors all actuated via small servo motors which had tiny cameras attached such that when an on-board Raspberry PI responded to a voice command of "more yellow blocks please" the ball would rotate until the desired pieces tumbled out of one of the openings?
- jacquesm 9y agoMore yellow bricks would leave rather a lot of choice, you're going to have to be a lot more specific than that. And your sphere will be a lot larger than 5 foot wide if you want to accommodate all possible parts and color variations.
- c22 9y agoI will say from my experience building a 3 foot wide spherical ball with some lights on it that it will take more effort than you would expect.
- wmeredith 9y agoI love HN: oddly-specific feedback to an oddly specific request :)
- yellowbrick 9y agoWhy would you need a camera? Just program the computer to know which compartment has yellow. Does a vending machine need a camera to know that B4 is a Coke?
- icebraining 9y agoIt does if you want to be awesome like jacquesm and have it auto-sort the pieces: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego