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Re: Technic Sets to Use for Educational Kits
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:27:45 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ralph Hempel writes:
Hmmm, don't forget to add the cost of the HandyBoard in there. Now you're • looking
at the cost of a RIS plus a any one of the kits Wes mentioned.

What I meant was that we have several hundred dollars per kit soley to buy LEGO
parts, above and beyond money spent on the HandyBoard (the microcontroller
we're going to use), sensors (from DigiKey & Jameco), and LEGO motors (which
can be purchased seperately, correct?). We're trying to keep the price under
$900 (the cost of a KIPR kit). Take away 300 for the HandyBoard, another 100
for motors, 50 for sensors, and you've still got $450 dollars to spend on LEGO
sets for parts. Come on people, this is your chance to vicariously buy several
hundred dollars worth of LEGOs!

There is a little known kit called 89609 from Dacta/Pitsco called Technology
Resource Set with 1733 parts including wheels, beams, etc for about $200.

That sounds promising, I'll have to look into it.



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  Re: Technic Sets to Use for Educational Kits
 
Ah, ok, now we've got a better idea of the requirements and budget. I thought you were going to use either LEGO or handyboard for controlling the robot. Throw out my ideas about programmable LEGo since you are using the handyboard. You should (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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  RE: Technic Sets to Use for Educational Kits
 
(...) Hmmm, don't forget to add the cost of the HandyBoard in there. Now you're looking at the cost of a RIS plus a any one of the kits Wes mentioned. There is a little known kit called 89609 from Dacta/Pitsco called Technology Resource Set with (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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