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RE: Lego Technic: R.I.P. ?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:05:32 GMT
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Marco Correia <marco@STOPSPAMMERSsoporcel.pt>
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Steve Baker wrote:
> Marco Correia wrote:
> > RCX was (is?) a good *START* (not a good *END*).
> > RCX 3.0 should evolve to something even more capable and flexible.
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> [...] It needs to be expandable in a bus-like structure.
Yep.
> [...] If the system were modular, the power supply could
> be separate and you wouldn't have to design Lego-scale
> robots around a honking great solid lump in the middle.
Yep.
At least, separate the CPU power supply from the motor output power supply.
We already have those power supply boxes: the 6xAA or 1x9V batt box :)
> 3) Communications to the outside world and between RCX's could have
> been better.
Yep again :)
IR's ok for local, short range comms... but radio is a must.
(I always though LEGO would make a super Cybermaster+RCX pBrick)
> The technology of 2002 can do *MUCH* better.
So, I truely wish they already designed the RCX of 2003, at least with 2001
tech.
...using recent wireless technology would be nice.
(I heard somewhere that Philips had something cheaper/simpler than Bluetooth
for low cost home electronics use).
> Lego can probably trade on *that* reputation for a good few years yet
> - but they'll come horribly unstuck when THIS generation of kid grows
> up and associates the LEGO name with crappy plastic toys like
> Bionicles. Once LEGO lose their reputation, they are doomed.
My thoughts (and fears) exactly !
Isn't anyone at LEGO seeing this coming ??????
> Yep...but they could design "new" Lego with all the wizz-bang
> electronics to the same principles and wind up with something just
> as relevent to modern kids as "our" Lego was to us.
As a kid, I always thought that would be the LEGO of today.
...for a while, it was.
Just like it began to decline in the LEGO System Town area since the late
80's, early 90's, I'm begining to feal the same with Mindstorms (and big
Technic like the Space Shuttle and the SuperCar's) today.
Let's hope someone at LEGO *WAKES UP!*
(someone that really likes, plays and understands LEGO)
mc.
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| (...) I think we all agree on that point - a more modular computer with as few limits on expandability as the technology can manage. RCX is OK - but you immediately run into three problems: 1) Not enough motor and sensor ports. No matter how many (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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