Posted by Anton Abaya at 1/25/2001 10:39 PM EST
Coach on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NONE AT THE MOMENT!

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In Reply to: Cool trick
Posted by Joe Johnson on 1/25/2001 8:50 PM EST:
: I am not a computer science guy but I play one on TV...
: ...in any case, I love the trick you posted. Is this
: the kind of thing that they teach in all those CS
: classes I never took but thought I could get by
: without? If so I regret my not taking more Computer
: Science class even more than I did before.
: Ah well...
: Joe J.
: P.S. With "scratchpad" RAM on the STAMP2SX chip, the
: need for such tricks is much reduced than it was prior
: to Innovation First taking over the controller, but I
: imagine that our code will grow over time to even use
: up the 63 bytes available in the scratchpad. I will
: keep your trick in my pocket to have it ready when that
: day comes. JJ
while we CS people learn to do these tricks.. ur cooking some brand new scheme of using drill motors to do wonderful things.....
-anton