[sudo-discuss] stepper motor foosball?

[Romy Snowyla]

Great counterpoint 

Rusty do look but don't waste your whole night staring at someone else's project 
Please build your own 
We are makers my pr machines :)

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On May 15, 2013, at 13:20, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

> i disagree with this sentiment 100%
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> it's much easier to get a project moving if someone has already tried and documented a similar project.  what's the harm in looking?  we all stand on the shoulders of giants - seeing a run through of how someone has already completed the basic steps of a project that may use some of the same principles and learning from the mistakes/efforts of others frees your limited time up for additional awesomeness in the design, and can help avoid late-night-almost-finished-but-still-fruitlessly-debugging, sanity-destroying-once-you-realize-how-much-time-you-just-wasted pitfalls.
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> May 14, 2013 11:59:48 PM, romy at snowyla.com wrote:
> I don't bother spending too much time looking at others projects anymore... Wastes your time and is a sure fire way to doom creating your own projects 
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> Trust me on this one I've learned this from bitter experience 
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> Just focus on making your own stuff ... 
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> On May 14, 2013 11:41 PM, "rusty lindgren" rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Maybe theirs is just the beginning.
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> On May 14, 2013 10:41 PM, "rusty lindgren" rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oh man, 
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>> Someone beat me to the punch!
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>> -Rusty
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>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Anthony Di Franco di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Holy-Rusted-Metal, Bat-Man!
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>> Install a cheap webcam in the head of each foosball "player", let people log in to each player online, and have their controls vote for how their entire row should move. First-person foosball!  :-D
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>> Actually, just building a webcam with a fisheye lens into the head of the goalie would be lots of fun by itself. 
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