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Tic-Tac-Toe-Playing LEGO Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the step-right-up dept.

David Primo writes "TechEBlog has an interesting article on a Tic-Tac-Toe-playing LEGO robot named WOPR — created by Bryan Bonahoom. It uses built-in sensors and a custom program to challenge humans. Video included. From the article: 'The NXT display also enables the inclusion of instructions to the user on resetting the robot. This allowed WOPR to run unattended.'"

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  1. Old news by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Charles Babbage designed one of these.

    http://www.adit.co.uk/html/noughts_and_crosses.htm l

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  2. tic-tac-toe is so 1983 by legoburner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken.
    Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
    Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

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  3. WOPR? by ndogg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if I can reprogram it to play a nice game of Global Thermo-Nuclear War.

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  4. Tic-tac-toe by Zouden · · Score: 3, Funny

    How appropriate that the demonstration video ends in a draw...

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  5. Lego? Pfft. by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Informative

    A bunch of MIT students created a tic-tac-toe playing computer a LONG time ago, out of *Tinker Toys*.

    I know it was a long time ago, because:
    a) I saw it in the Boston Computer Museum in 1991 and it had been "broken for years"
    b) Nobody plays with Tinkey Toys anymore... And hasn't since about 1975.

    Ah, here's a neat article from Sci Am in 1989 (probably the one I read which caused me to seek it out in 1991): http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/472_html/Intro/Tin kertoyComputer/TinkerToy.html

    For the impatient, there is a photo on the last page.

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