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Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:26:32 GMT
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Rob Hendrix <rob@msltc%avoidspam%.org>
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I guess we'll just have to wait on you to get that project you mentioned
some time back finished. I recall you were going to design the "perfect"
RCX clone. Is that project still in progress?
-Rob
"John Barnes" <barnes@sensors.com> wrote in message
news:H9HB0H.785@lugnet.com...
> The only bona fide piece of information I have is the recollection of an
> off-hand comment made by one of the TLC staff who was at BrickFest last
> summer who said that if the Spybotics line did not make money, then the
> future for the Mindstorms line was in jeopardy.
>
> My concern that the Spybotics line was not very "playable" seems in part • to
> be true based on the number of opened and then returned sets I've managed • to
> pick up from my local TRU. Quite a few had completed models in them. I
> imagine a youngster dutifully putting it together and expecting it'd run
> around the floor doing something interesting. My initial experience with • the
> first one I bought and built was that it didn't do much at all. And if the
> product has about 15 minutes from the time the proud new owner installs • the
> batteries to the time they become enthralled watching it motivate around,
> then there will be a lot of un-enthralled kids out there.
>
> So I am not holding my breath for RIS 3.0. I see less and less evidence • that
> the necessary support structure is there to support reconfigurable • robotics
> from TLC. Sensors on closeout sale aren't a good sign. The demise of all
> motorized sets using component motors (as opposed to big motor/battery
> combination boxes). The loss of connecting wires etc etc. None of this • looks
> overly positive to me.
>
> I'd say that whatever Technic and Mindstorms parts you currenty have • stashed
> away are what you are going to be using for a while. Thank goodness they • had
> all those Znap sets as a lifetime's supply's worth of motors and RCX's on
> big discount a few months back. I knew there was a reason to stock up.
>
> JB
>
> oh, those Spybotics sets I bought heavily marked down from TRU after • Xmas -
> destined to be part of a project too ghastly for most AFOLs to contemplate
;)
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| (...) No - enough people convinced me that the interconnect and addressing issues of I2C would be a problem that I decided not to do it. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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