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Re: Thoughts on Battery-powered IR-controlled trains
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:44:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > One RCX, controling multiple trains, switching tracks, and loading &
> > unloading stations. If the train folks don't enjoy this, I assure you there's
> > some mindstorms types that are chomping at the bit.
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> Except the RCX will be obsolete in 6 months, and the NXT doesn't have
> IR. Maybe all the mindstorms fans can pay for their NXT by selling their
> RCXs to train builders???? :)
I'm saving up to buy an NXT - at Developer's Special, or full retail, I'll
likely get one the first chance I get. But I'm not remotely thinking the RCX
will be "obsolete" in 6 months. One, the NXT doesn't have IR... yet. It wouldn't
surprise me at all that somebody makes a 3rd party "IR code box" to allow theNXT
to send IR data. Second, there's a lot that an RCX can do, so I see no reason to
abandon it.
Heck, were Manas created so that RCX hackers could control them? I suspect
this was not a major motivating factor, but yet another "interface" an AFOL came
up with... because they could.
--
Brian Davis
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