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RE: Mindstorms Bleak Future - Bah! Purism Shmurism!
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Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:14:31 GMT
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Marco Correia <{marco@}spamcake{soporcel.pt}>
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> -----Original Message-----> From: Bruce Boyes
> Purism shmurism -- if you're a pragmatist, who cares whether
> Lego makes a new part, or HiTechnicStuff, Jennifer Clark,
> Systronix, or some other company, as long as it serves a need
> and works well? Why is everything Lego makes "pure"?
> Is Znap "pure"? This sounds like religion -- not robotics.
> Why not embrace anything and everything which might move the
> state of the art forward?
I consider myself a LEGO purist in the sense that I try as hard as I can to
solve the problems with what LEGO provides.
I simply can't take a GOOD LEGO piece and "brake" it of modify it on
purpose.
I will, on the other hand, try to use a broken one and modify it as I can so
it can remain usefull and I won't have to put it in the recycle bin.
This is what's going to happen to my older Cybermaster unit that had the
left motor stuck (and after opening it, I saw it had some plastics broken
too).
After receiving a replacement unit (kudos goto LEGO support !!!) the older
unit will go through a "hacking" process where I'll remove the original
motors (the good one I'll keep it as a spare) and put the motor wires
through to external LEGO sockets, so I can still use the CPU but with
"normal" external Technic motors (ok, ok, I'll have to cut a *good* LEGO
wire in two, but that's as far as I can go).
I'll try to keep functional the two very usefull Tacho "sensors" (now free
from any motor).
This is how purist I am.
> (www.jcx.systronix.com). How does a native Java CPU,
> 3,000,000 byte codes
> per second, 54 nsec timer/counter resolution, multi-threaded Java
> J2ME/CLDC, 32-bit integers or floating point numbers, 512
> KBytes SRAM and
> up to 2 MBytes Flash sound? A real language and your choice
> of open IDEs
> for development? How about 16 or 24 Lego-compatible sensor
> inputs and 12
> Lego compatible motor outputs in one 100 x 100 x 40 mm module?
hmmm... faster CPU, more RAM, more (better) input/outputs ?
That *should* be some of the specs to the RCX 3.0 :>
but... since LEGO won't make it, and since it'll use every
other LEGO things (sensors, motors, lights, ...)
it would be a very interesting addition to my LEGO/Robotics hobby.
> future modules such as power relays, peer to peer
> RF networking, 10 BaseT ethernet, IrDA, etc.
"peer to peer RF networking" COOL!!!
together with "IrDA"
and even "10 BaseT ethernet"
and still LEGO "compatible",
that's really cool :)
will it have a "nice" LEGO alike plastic box to encase the CPU ?
> How about this vision for the future - Lego makes all the
> neat plastic bits
> and basic robot brains, and third parties push the envelope
> and do the lower volume, high-tech stuff?
Well... it should be the LEGO Mindstorms that should make such things, but
since they don't have that vision or interest or some other reason, that's
one way to push LEGO Robotics.
mc.
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| (...) (Shields up) Purism shmurism -- if you're a pragmatist, who cares whether Lego makes a new part, or HiTechnicStuff, Jennifer Clark, Systronix, or some other company, as long as it serves a need and works well? Why is everything Lego makes (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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