On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 14:12 +0100, andy pugh wrote: > On 9 October 2012 13:24, Bruce Layne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I were placing approximately 10,000 marbles or less, I probably > > wouldn't try to develop a method of having the machine do it. I'd make > > relatively minor changes to optimize the operation for manual assembly. > > However, if I was converting JPG files to patterns of coloured > marbles, then I would definitely be using a machine. > > I think I just spotted a product opportunity :-) >
That's brilliant, Andy. But how about, instead of gluing the balls in, one has a horizontal plate with a cup array. Each cup has three plungers that can tilt the ball out. You leave one cup empty and program the matrix to tilt the balls to the proper holes for different pictures. A mirror could be used to tilt the image to be vertical, maybe through a framed whole in a wall. One gets extra credit for using bowling balls. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
