Dimitri did you make this?

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3AcPEPbH0

7 min video... of a Factory built from legos... automatically building lego cars... crazy!

-DallanC

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944

No I didn't make that Shocked

But it does give me a urge to brush up my microcontroller programming which I havnt done in ages. Very Happy

Dimitri

1895ss · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: Re: Dimitri did you make this?

That is neat, thanks for posting that Dallan. Dimitri hasn't got time for things like that right now ........... Very Happy

SwampFox · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: Re: Dimitri did you make this?

Someone had entirely to much time on their hands.
Ed

kentucky hareraiser · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: Dimitri did you make this?

who ever could do all that with plastic.emagine putting them in a metal plant,and say make guns. would be dangerous

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944

Kentucky,

Would take alittle bit of work to get a machine putting together guns, alot more complex machinery and machinery that can deal with small tiny parts compared to pushing and pulling blocks of lego around.

Plus I think they already assemble guns with robotics to a limited degree. Smile

Dimitri

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944

Since it relates to my current microcontroller project (shhh its a big secret ... not really its a scientific calculator) And I think this is alot more impressive due to the way the mind has to work to develope something like this ...

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Before the day of computers and pocket calculators all mathematics was done by hand. Great effort was expended to compose trigonometric and logarithmic tables for navigation, scientific investigation, and engineering purposes. The larger efforts involved rooms of semi skilled people, called 'computers', capable of doing reliable arithmetic who would be under the direction of a skilled mathematician.

In the mid-19th century, people began to design machines to automate this error prone process. Many machines of various designs were eventually built but, the most advanced and famous of these was not. The Babbage Difference Engine.

Because of engineering issues as well as political and personal conflict the Babbage Difference engines construction had to wait until 1991 when the Science Museum in London decided to build the Babbage Difference Engine No.2 for an exhibit on the history of computers.

Babbage's design could evaluate 7th order polynomials to 31 digits of accuracy. I set out to build a working Difference Engine using standard LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits. I have built two generations of Difference Engines and am designing the third version now.

Dimitri