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Re: Lego-animated building instructions
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Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:06:20 GMT
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Rounce <graham@rounce.&AntiSpam&freeserve.co.uk>
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Oh god! First Lego Mindstorm, then Cybermaster, now Robolab and The
Intelligent House as well!
What I & Sam (son) saw in the shop was Lego-animated construction
instructions for building this hopping monster thing that jiggered about on
the counter, and you had an extendable poking weapon with which you had to
hit sensors. I wasn't very impressed with this as a game, but I was with the
software, which had excellent graphics for taking you round the `workshop'
and other areas, as well as the building instructions. I think (though not
sure) that this was Cybermaster.
Andy Bower (15th Dec) reckoned that this was actually better than the
on-the-surface superior Mindstorm because the Mindstorm software was
basically good for not much. He also criticised the line-of-sight infra-red
connection, but isn't that used just for downloading the program? It doesn't
have to be in communication the whole time, does it?
I might as well come clean and say that I've already bought him
Mindstorm for Christmas, but am wondering if I did the right thing? Should I
exchange it, or get Cybermaster as well? Now, or some time in the future?
Also, I thought that I would have some fun with Mindstorm as well, but
if it is as useless as A. Bower says....
PS: A merry Christmas to all of you.
Graham Rounce
London UK
-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Salwen <csalwen@northeast.net>
To: Rounce <graham@rounce.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 13 December 1998 22:48
Subject: Re: Lego-animated building instructions
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:20:53 -0000, you wrote:
> So.... nobody knows if you can get Lego-mation building instructions for • ANYTHING for Mindstorm?
> Graham Rounce
> London UK.
I'm not sure if what you saw was the cybermaster, or the Intelligent house
set.
Was the interface directly attached to the computer, with about 8 inputs
and 8
outputs? If you really want the RCX, which is the heart of the mindstorms
set,
and more specific building instructions and software that is geared to
younger
children you can check out the Robolab sets. You can check out
http://www.pitsco-legodacta.com/html/lego_dacta.html
to see pictures of the intelligent house and robolab. I have the robolab
sets
and my children (8&10) can use it. Robolab says from 8, mindstorms says 12
and
up. One thing is that page doesn't mention the software by itself for $25.
Feel free to ask if this doesn't answer your questions.
Cindy
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