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RE: LEGO Spybotics & LEGO Direct/Shop
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:53:46 GMT
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Original-From:
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Marco Correia <marco@soporcelIHATESPAM.pt>
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<marco@soporcelNOSPAM.pt>
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> -----Original Message-----> Of John Hansen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: LEGO Spybotics & LEGO Direct/Shop
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> In response to a few comments which I sent to a fellow who works
> for LEGO about the MindScript and LASM support I recently added
> to BricxCC I was told that the spybotic unit would be a
> programmable brick.
That's something I was expecting while reading "all" what I could find on
the web about it (there's a site with a light review of pre-release versions
of the sets).
When they talk about connecting the Infrared-RC to the PC (there's a photo
of the Ir-RemoteController and the PC cable on LEGO Shop) and "sending the
spybotics unit on it's mission..." we should expect some degree of
processing on the unit.
> That's pretty much all I know, but I have high hopes that in
> short order I will be able to add support in BricxCC for
> programming the spybotic bricks.
And possibly Dave Baum could also sort out some kind of NQC support for it
too :)
> I have high hopes, but at $60 they may not be terribly capable.
Well, I'm expecting something below or along the lines of the Scout unit
and, let's hope, surely well above the MicroScout/Manas processing
capabilities.
I see the Spybotics unit as a cross between a Scout interior and a
MicroScout/Manas exterior. Let's see how true this is theory is.
It's sad the way LEGO is going, rejecting the modular philosophy (isolated
cpu unit from sensors and motors like the RCX) and going into the
all-embedded-into-cpu-unit philosophy (like MicroScout, Manas and now
Spybotics)
...maybe that's the only way they know to lower the final price, I dunno :(
mc.
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| (...) I'm also *very* eager to hear some details about these bricks. In response to a few comments which I sent to a fellow who works for LEGO about the MindScript and LASM support I recently added to BricxCC I was told that the spybotic unit would (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics)
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