This is going to blow your socks off, and if you're not wearing any socks, it'll blow your pants away. If you don't have any pants or socks on... good for you .
Anyways, I was randomly looking at some Youtube videos and stumbled upon this amazing Lego printer. I though it was just a custom built model that looks like a printer, much like some people have built a scale model of the White House. I was wrong, this Lego printer is actually a printer that works. It uses a felt-tip marker as the drawing mechanism and it uses a series of small Lego electric motors and a bunch of Lego moving parts to create the printer. The computer he uses is apparently a Mac OS-X and he connects it tot he printer via a USB. Apparently he used an old printer's PCB's (Printed Circuit Boards -- the green boards with a bunch of electrical components) to I believe is to process the data sent by the computer. He designed a custom built board (the beige colored one at the top right) which I believe would be the control system for all the Lego motors. Somehow he also had to reprogram the printer itself in order to make the control system changes from a conventional ink jet printer to a felt-tip printer.
He plans to release the schematics soon, which is great to see how such a system works and if it's not too expensive, it's a nice project to do in your spare time.
If you want to be technical, "Lego" should refer to the company, not the toy bricks. Therefore a plural of "Lego" shouldn't exist unless there were two Lego companies, and then you could say "the two Legos."
I saw this when I was 8 in real life. My mom delayed at work and my school teacher who was still a student brought me to her friends at the science academy. They had build something similar there.
That's pretty gosh-darn amazing! (The only thing more amazing would be building a Colossus IRL.) I was once building a "Lego printer" that printed stuff by placing Lego blocks. That project died when something happened to my NXT brick that rendered the display unusable (I don't remember the keypresses that would be needed to run a program without looking at the display). >.>
Oh_Man -- No APM in chess. Computer just outthinks the human by seeing more moves ahead and more permutations
[10:12 pm]
Oh_Man -- U reckon? Kasparov waa defeated by computer decades ago
[05:47 pm]
NimoStar -- If its any consolation, the human brain would still mop the floor with this bot if it wasn't limited by the mechanical interface
[05:34 pm]
NimoStar -- Well. The bot didn't come up with any new strategy. It just has superhuman micro. Hard to beat that. I reckon even the simplest dedicated chess engines are unbeatable for humans now.
Oh_Man shouted: NudeRaider did u watch the entire video? it's not one game. it's currently dominating the ladder at number 1 position. do ur research first!
Oops, caught me there, no I haven't. I was imagining how the game went. Sorry for that. Watching it now. brb
NimoStar shouted: They were not "Unprepared" that was their fifth loss in a row against the bot. The other replays are also available
that doesn't mean he was prepared. When humans come around with new strategies it often takes weeks until the pros figure out how to shut it down. Oh_Man
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I was imagining how the game went. Sorry for that. Watching it now. brb