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Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:46:39 GMT
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Andy Gombos <GOMBOS_2000@nospamEARTHLINK.NET>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net>
To: "Andy Gombos" <gombos_2000@earthlink.net>
Cc: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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> I don't mean that you'll plug the same number into the battery box - I • mean
> that over a year of use, the TOTAL number of batteries that you'll consume
> will be about the same.
Oh, okay.
>
> > > But that's the point - with Spybotics (and Micro-scout and every other • set
> > > since Mindstorms), there is *NO* connectivity because everything is • inside
> > > the one box. Hence backwards, forwards and sideways compatibility is • not
> > > an issue.
> >
> >
> > I sense some hardware hacking to bring inputs/outputs outside the box. • :-)
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> Yes - but in this hypothetical nightmarish world, there would be no single
> motors to buy, no official cables to connect things with, etc.
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> In short, there would be no point in hacking into "the box". You might • just
> as well go completely non-standard/non-Lego and just build a suitable • computer
> with whatever motors you fancy.
>
> You might use Lego for the *structure* of the robot - but all of the • electronics
> might as well be fully custom.
The current parts could be used - you would have to find alternatives, but
bringing an output out, then using the currently standard motor and wires,
you have your expandability back in a fashion.
Andy
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| (...) Well, I guess - but the Spybotics firmware wouldn't know how to drive the extra motor - unless it replaced one of the built-in motors which would then be 'dead weight'. I think you'd have to be pretty desperate to want to do that...especially (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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| (...) I don't mean that you'll plug the same number into the battery box - I mean that over a year of use, the TOTAL number of batteries that you'll consume will be about the same. (...) Yes - but in this hypothetical nightmarish world, there would (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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