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Re: Minibot climb rate

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Originally Posted by ebarker View Post
A computer is nothing more than an arrangement of switches. It can be mathematically proven that if you properly arrange switches, you can build memories, arithmetic logic units, registers, and many more things needed to build a modern computer. That is why you see binary, or base 2 arithmetic in computers. It is their native language.

From the robot rules - "An unlimited number of limit switches and two ordinary household light switches." is allowed on the minibot.

So it is possible to create a "computer" that has a hardwired program to perform the necessary algorithms for machine control. After all Von Neumann said that hardware and software was equivalent ! Really.. He did !

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If you can do that within the 12 pound weight limit using limit switches and two light switches, I'll bow to you in honor.
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