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Re: What are all those lego companies?
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:23:20 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:


<snip>

  Technics - is regular Lego 'bricks' with the addition of gears and
          beams with holes and stuff - but no computers or sensors -
          and very few (if any) motorized sets.

<snip>

Not to confuse the thread originator, but the Technic line is no
stranger to computers, sensors or motors. Both the Control Center and
Cybermaster are programmable computers, and the Cybermaster uses sensors
similar to those included with the RIS. Motors have had an even longer association.

--

Regards

Micah J. Mabelitini - LUGNET #918
The University of Kentucky
SECC Middlesboro Academic Support Center
accutron@kih.net - http://www.users.kih.net/~micahx/



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  Re: What are all those lego companies?
 
(...) You also failed to mention the Lego trains. I grew up with the railway sets as an integral part of my [basic] Lego collection in the early 80s. Since then they have been motorised, electrified and controllable (==programmable?). (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: What are all those lego companies?
 
(...) Where does one get CYBERMASTER and CONTROL CENTER anyway? Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) They are just product lines - and they all work together. Basic - Just bricks...LOTS of bricks. Technics - is regular Lego 'bricks' with the addition of gears and beams with holes and stuff - but no computers or sensors - and very few (if any) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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