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Re: Intimidated by LEGO Minstorms -- was: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 4 Sep 2002 00:11:00 GMT
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Steve Baker <{sjbaker1@airmail}nomorespam{.net}>
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Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> I think the UAS would be good if you took out the remote control...
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 working using the remote without writing
a single line of code - and then switch to programming a "known to
work" robot - rather than fighting your program bugs at the same
time as worrying why something jams somewhere...or whatever.
* When your robot is immenently about to run off the edge of the table,
and return itself to the natural state of Lego parts - a pile of bricks -
it's *REALLY* useful to have the 'emergency stop' button on the Remote!
Arguably, it's a pain to have it in a big set though because you'll never
need more than one of them - but you might well want many of those big sets
for the parts they have.
> 4.not enough ideas. I own a 2.0 plus a bunch of other technic and I
> still havent thought of many good ideas for what to do with it. They
> just dont give you enough different ideas in the box IMHO.
Really? Wow!
I wish I had ten times as much time to pursue building all those ideas.
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in the real world!
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