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Re: new Mindstorms servos?
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Date: 
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:20:23 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
  We don't always agree with their decisions, but you
have to agree they don't do anything "just good enough".  This is no different.

For most people, it would be "good enough" to use 6 AA batteries to power 4 motors.

LEGO is not most people.  They know what people want, but they also know what their
toy will support.

You know, it would be interesting to see their Quality Standard mission
statement document, if such a thing exists

Steve.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: new Mindstorms servos?
 
(...) Three words: "Don't make crap". At least that's how I would put it. (18 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: new Mindstorms servos?
 
(...) From the rec.toys.lego Frequently Asked Questions: The LEGO motto: Det bedste er ikke for godt. (Only the best is good enough.) Actually a word-by-word translation would be, "The best is not too good" - in which "not too good" parses nicely (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: new Mindstorms servos?
 
(...) (as you may have seen in the WIRED story) I can not possibility convey to you how much we wanted more motor ports. And we told them. Really. I mean, really, we did. We told them so often, I think we started to annoy them. Here's the problem. (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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