Why LEGO Technic is so great!

[Didumos69]

There are more configurations possible, but I think this is the most simple - yet intriguing - self-assembling machine possible. It has been built from a single piece and can put itself together in zero steps. . I wanted to test a real-life version, but I was affraid I would trigger some kind of unstoppable domino-effect

That's for the 3rd category, now back to the 2nd category... :wink:

Sorry, had to make this joke. Killing time until midnight.

Edited May 31, 2016 by Didumos69

[Didumos69]

I think you have the right idea though, maybe a system of machines that all build different pieces of eachother, and some that assemble them. I don't think it's a one man, er, robot job. Maybe like this it's possible. But to have a single machine able to make itself, It would become infinitely complicated, in order to make itself it would need precise tools, and to make those precise tools, it would need even more precise tools, and to make those etc etc etc, like roppie11 said

The more I come to think about it, the more I get convinced that this should be the way to go. Not a big machine or robot, but a composition of small machines with simple functions.

Not Lego, but this seems very promising: http://news.mit.edu/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-assembling-robots-1004

Edited June 1, 2016 by Didumos69

[bonox]

at a fundamental level, that model describes pretty much every (if not actually every) significant construction humans have ever built. Using a lego set as an example, you have some machines to extract raw materials, other machines to process them, more to create moulds, further ones to inject plastic into those moulds - and all of them are created/operated/maintained by an overseer - let's call him a human/robot analogue.

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Going back to the history of other 'constructions' the act of creating sandstone to build a pyramid is akin to the same idea, but longer timescales are involved and 'machinery' is quite different, going all the way back to creating a star and waiting for it to nova and produce some heavy elements for you to work with.

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Crikey - what's wrong with sharing some genuine enthusiasm?

Back on topic, Lego helps me stay (relatively) sane whenever I'm translating some off-the-wall writer liker Burroughs.

That's true, idk though, I see enthusiasm everywhere. I thought this was a troll post at first when I saw it

There are more people following this troll thread than there are people following the thread about modifications to new Porsche, what has the world come to

[Andy D]

That's true, idk though, I see enthusiasm everywhere. I thought this was a troll post at first when I saw it

I hope you changed your mind. I was just trying for a laugh, not a "flame war". I will be more careful in the future to try to make sure my intent is clear. I did not intend any harm, just a little fun.

I hope this thread has not left any with a negative opinion of me.

Andy D