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Liz B wrote: <snip great comments> Speaking from experience (as the owner of a 2.0), I can see the folowing issues with the RIS set: 1.being one of the most expensive lego sets there is, parents are very concerned about what their $$$ is buying. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think the remote controller is an absolute *must* for the serious robotics builder - I *love* mine. * It allows you to decouple the programming task from the mechanical design task. While you are building, you can check that everything is (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) agreed (...) Personally, I think that anyone who's attention span is so short that they can't spend the time to sort them into sandwich bags if they absolutely have to (and only do it once) probably doesn't have the attention span to actually (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There's quite a difference between an hour of fairly mindless tedium and an hour of stimulating intellectual challenge. However, you're probably right...you only have to do this once...providing you are disciplined enough to dismantle your (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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