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Re: Is Robotics Discovery Set good?
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:46:29 GMT
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Brad, if you can, go for the RCX (RIS) It will be usable for MANY years to • come as
you grow.

I have all three units and I can tell you that the RCX (RIS) is the best.

I think the Robot Invntion system is too much money.  Since i'm gettng the
Cyber Strikers set, a $60 dinosaur book, and perhaps other things for Christmas
too, I don't think I'd be allowed to do that.  And I don't really like computer
games, I mostly just use my comuter to communicate on lugnet.  I'd much rather
paly with a little micrscout than plug my LEGO robot into Windows 98.  I mean,
what if I got an illegal operation?!

I was playing with LEGO last night and wanted to build a catapult that fired
when the front rammed into something.  Is that possible (Cyber Slam Robot's
Revenge comes as close as I can imagine) without a Mindstorms system or will I
have to save that idea for later?



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(...) You can do that with the Scout. (Note: Micro-Scout and Scout are NOT the same) The scout comes with some nice stuff. But to use the full power of the Scout you're going to need a transmitter for the PC. Lego or Ebay should have them. The (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)

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(...) Brad, if you can, go for the RCX (RIS) It will be usable for MANY years to come as you grow. I have all three units and I can tell you that the RCX (RIS) is the best. There was another message group that discussed all this in detail. (URL) the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.ca.on)

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