[sudo-discuss] stepper motor foosball?

[Romy Snowyla]

Does a painter spend all day staring at others paintings instead of painting 
Does a painter spend all say doing free pr for other painters and not painting ones own work 
Does a painter say I cannot paint anymore because someone else has made a painting 
Deep thoughts

Ha !

:)

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On May 15, 2013, at 16:40, GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01 at att.net> wrote:

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> YOs-
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> This is a perfect illustration of diversity in subjectivity.
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> What works for each of us may be the same as or different to what works
> for others.
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> When we look at another person's project we might feel...
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> ...excited to duplicate it.
> ...depressed that someone else thought of it first.
> ...inspired to do something different.
> ...inspired to do something better.
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> And most of us have all of these reactions at various times: depending
> on the project, how difficult it is, how much new learning is involved,
> whether it might help us earn our livings or create right-livelihood
> jobs for ourselves and others, whether it's something for work, play,
> learning, socializing, etc., whether it facilitates creative expression
> or scientific discovery, what kind of technology it uses, etc. 
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> -G.
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> On 13-05-15-Wed 4:19 PM, Romy Snowyla wrote:
>> Great counterpoint 
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>> 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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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On May 15, 2013, at 13:20, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
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>>> 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 
>>> 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:
>>> good point. 
>>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Anthony Di Franco di.franco 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, 
>>>> 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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>>>> http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/robotic-foosball-table-built-f.php
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>>>> Holy-Rusted-Metal, Bat-Man!
>>>> I could dig this.  Would be the coolest thing ever!
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>>>> -Rusty
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>>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer patrikd at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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>>>> This sounds like fun. Add a Raspberry Pi, a web cam, and openCV, and you have a pretty nice playground.
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>>>> Watching this video, it seems to me that we could do an automated foosball game if we had some basic gearing going both ways.
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>>>> Sounds fun, right? 
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rusty Lindgren
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