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Subject: 
Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:56:22 GMT
Original-From: 
Mike Thorn <buachaille@lmsm.info{StopSpam}>
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The most depressing thing would be the loss of decent motors.  Those are
essentially
'consumable' items. They fail.  Of my set of a dozen or so motors, two have
failed in the last year...if that failure rate is typical, I'll be dangerously
low on motors within just a couple of years if Lego stop making them.  I need
to stock up on those.

*BUT*...

If we could build our own RCX, what's stopping us from building our own motors?

"doom"...what a depressing application of the word...

~Mike



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  Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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