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(...) Interesting comment, frankly I am surprised. The MicroScout (MS) is far from a "piece of junk" considering the fact that you can get the DDK for $40 (I might modify my opinion if the price jumped much higher than this). Irrespective of good vs (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Harley Myler wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> I would hardly call the Microscout an intelligent motor...in technical definition, perhaps; in practical usability, far from it. In fact, I would say that the Microscout is *less* intelligent than a plain old (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's *far* from an intelligent motor! It's a pain to use even as a simple motor. You can't even tell it "turn on and keep running forever"... which seems like a pretty basic operation for any motor! The darned thing runs for a few seconds, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Beyond discussing the theoretical usage potential of the Microscout, has anybody actually build anything with it that really uses it for something practical? Like other intelligent Lego bricks, it takes two button presses to just power it up and (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The most I've ever built with a Microscout (other than a couple of the R2D2 variants) was a six-legged alternating tripod walker ((URL) Furthermore, a standard 9V motor would function even better in that particular implimentation than the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As far as a motor is concerned I guess 'producing an orgy of annoying beeps' is pretty intelligent :) (...) bricks, (...) If you're not afraid to use non-lego technology you might take a look at the Velleman K8000 kit, the 'Computer Interface (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's not the idea though. I'm looking to the *tiny* single chip devices that exist for I2C - those could be buried inside a sensor or motor without increasing it's size significantly. A truly distributed system with no large central computer (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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