Re: Challenge

2009-11-21 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Sasha Pachev wrote: > Now another challenge. A while ago we had the lost sheep problem. For > those who do not remember - we have 10,000 sheep with scannable ID > tags from 1 to 1. We assume that we are able to quickly scan all > of the tags and do so only onc

Re: Challenge

2009-11-21 Thread Sasha Pachev
To clarify, 15 and 17 were decimal numbers, so 0xf and 0x11. My son (he is 10 and his name is Benjamin) figured out divisibility by 0xf after a hint "What is 16 mod 15?", and then figured out divisibility by 0x11 on his own having noticed it behaves just like divisibility by decimal 11 for decimal

Re: Distance Sensors

2009-11-21 Thread Joe C
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Also, don't forget the Wiimote approach.  (Infrared camera + 16 emitters.) > > Shane One small problem is each Wiimote can only detect up to 4 sources of infrared at a time so you would need at a minimum 4 Wiimotes. Also since infrared is l