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Re: I'm sure this has been done to death
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:46:01 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.IHATESPAMnet>
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Kyle McDonald - Eagle CAD wrote:
> > the StarWars sets are pretty good for robot parts.
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> Which Star wars sets are good? Maybe I'm short on sleep but none
> of them come to mind.
The AT-AT was OK (apart from the 'microscout' heap of junk).
> > Truly the best deal is *another* RIS or RDS set.
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> Maybe not the best deal, but some of the expansion packs are pretty
> good. Actually if you think you may want another RIS, The lego catalog
> has a pretty goo combo pack for $249 that includes 3 (I think) of the
> expansion packs.
What upset me about those was that a large fraction of the benefit of
them was in the CD-ROM - which being a Linux user, I have no use for.
> At least! Too bad the ZNAP sets are gone... those were the best
> for motors.
Yes - that was one *sweet* deal!
> > * Rotation sensor(s), another touch sensor, maybe another light sensor.
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> It's pricey, but all of this (I belive) can be found in just
> one of the expansion packs... It also has the remote control :)
Yes - I bought mine from one of the online toy stores when it shut down
in the Great Dot Com Collapse.
> > * Some pneumatics - they are great fun.
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> I haven't played with these yet but I plan to. These are best
> with Solenoid valves, but you need to go outside the pure LEGO
> boundary to get those.
Pneumatics are definitely *fun*. I got a lot of enjoyment from making
a fake steam engine with a regular motor keeping the air tank pressurised
and using a purely mechanical linkage to get it to reciprocate the two
pistons. Quite the least efficient machine I've built but *wonderful*
to watch in action.
Pneumatics are also great for things like robot arms where you want
power delivered out on a long skinny structure where you cannot afford
the weight of a motor.
> > I bought *four* RDS sets! Sometimes you find them *very* cheap (I
> > got mine for $70 each in really beat-up boxes in my local 'Frys') and
> > they really do have the best selection and value for money IMHO.
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> Yeah the RDS isn't a bad set. but the Scout was a little lame.
It depends on what you try to use it for. The Scout is good as:
* Something to run *small* NQC programs.
* Something to act as a 'slave' computer to just drive motors
and read sensors with all the 'intelligence' going on in the
RCX.
* Something to use with the Lego remote controller.
> I think I would have spent the extra money and gotten more
> RIS's on sale rather than RDS's .. but that's just me :^)
Well, at the time, the RIS was $200 and the RDS was going for $70.
If you compare the parts counts for THREE RDS's against ONE RIS,
you can see where I was coming from! (Think: SIX motors!)
> I did buy 4 of the space shuttles though :^)
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> Man I don't even want to think about how much this hobby has
> cost me so far. Ouch! :^) ;^) :^)
Yeah - just the cost of the storage system is getting frightening.
My son and I are getting into the Lego Train stuff - now *that* gets
serious.
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