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    Is Scout powerful? —Mauro Vianna
   I just acquired the Discovery set that includes the Scout. At first I always face the scout as a simpler version of the RCX with the following disadvantages: -2 motor outputs only -2 inputs only -inputs are restricted to touch sensors only -less (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)  
   
        Re: Is Scout powerful? —Scott Arthur
     I think the scout is great. We build quite a lot of simple models to be controlled by the IRRC, it is perfect for this. It is also good for checking out larger models before the RCX is cranked up. It is biggest draw back is the it only having two (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Is Scout powerful? —Zhengrong Zang
     I also think Scout is very good, and it has some new features that not in RCX but will be in new RCX2, like event monitor and so on. NQC 2.2 r1 supports scout in NQC language, so you can write software like for RCX, if you like to use IDE (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Is Scout powerful? —Dean Husby
   (...) The Scout has the following drawbacks. Passive Sensors only. No Rotation or Light. It's very hard to use the Light sensor for some projects since it's built into the brick. 1k of RAM!!! That's 400 bytes to play with. Not very much at all. (The (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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