Comment by rapnie

17 hours ago

It is a really nice concept. I had never heard of it. But then as GenX at young age I played with Fishertechnik [0] more than with Lego. Around since 1966 [1].

[0] https://www.fischertechnik.de/en

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik

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shagie  37 minutes ago

I'd love to play with fischertechnik again...

https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/industry-and-universities -- Factorio on a shelf would be neat (but "request quote" tends to suggest its out of my price range https://www.studica.com/fischertechnik/fischertechnik-factor... )

https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/maker

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I first saw fischertechnik at an engineering expo at the local university in the 80s. There was a terminal and you'd enter the type of candy you wanted, and it had a robotic system that got it from the shelving... which was neat. The backside of it had another robotic system that got a piece of candy from a conveyer belt (of many different ones), identified it, and put it in the now empty spot.