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Introduction to the sorting machine project

By Peter on July 4 2018

Overview

I want to explain how the Lego sorting machine is going to work on a conceptual scale. We have a large number of different components in the system, so lets start with a diagram.

The olive colored components are different pieces of software running on a computer. The grey components are pieces of hardware, and the green one . . .

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July 04, 2018

A programmer is me!

by Peter on June 24th, 2018

The Beginning

I've spent most of my life immersed in the world of computing. It does seem a little strange to me, in retrospect, that it's only in the last two years that I've really been getting into programming. I guess I've historically been a support guy, both Jamie and I being the go-to computer problem solvers in our families ever . . .

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June 24, 2018

Lego

and its various properties J

Editors Note: I linked here from an assignment for CS50. It's a wonderful free computer science course hosted by Harvard University. You should check it out!

 

I feel that it is important to start with Lego.

After all, that is where this whole story starts. There is a lot of Lego here. Not the insane collections that you . . .

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June 24, 2018

Test blog, please ignore.

Failure is always an option.

So.... it begins.

We had talked for a long time about writing something up for our programming adventures, and we decided to finally bite the bullet and just try it. Who knows how frequently we will actually update this or if it will just end up making friends with some dust bunnies in a corner.

We are not professional programmers by . . .

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June 24, 2018

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