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Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:26:20 GMT
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I see no reason why TLC couldn't just continue to manufacture RIS 2.0. Why
continue with R&D to develop 3.0 if 2.0 is more than adequate to stimulate
young minds into considering a career in engineering? 3 sensor inputs and 3
motor outputs are more than sufficient, given that TLC's perceived market
for the product is older children (i.e. not the adult variety). In fact,
limiting the number of I/O ports forces one to be creative in solving a
problem, instead of just throwing more sensors or motors at the problem.
Instead of improving the hardware, a case could be made to improve the
language support of RIS. But, with Robolab and other 3rd party solutions
readily available (like NQC, BrickOS, pbForth, leJOS, etc...), the product
may have reached the point of diminishing returns as concerns further R&D.
Hopefully, we can continue to see revisions to the RIS software & SDKs that
will support any new operating systems that M$ presumes to afflict us
with...
What could really be bad news is if TLC (knowingly or otherwise) adopts a
"been there, done that" attitude and stops supporting the product because
all enthusiam for it has died out (in the company). So many of TLC's
products have relatively short shelf lives when compared to some other toys,
I just hope TLC can continue to resist the temptation to do the same with
RIS.
I would certainly welcome RIS 3.0, but I'm not sure it's entirely necessary.
Perhaps for marketing purposes, a repackaged and slightly enhanced RIS 3.0
may be a possibility.
Mark
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 | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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| (...) I agree. One thing I thought is that, Keep the RCX and offer an expanded version of the Technic Control Center. It currently has three motor controlls via the pad keys and plays back movments. I'm making a giant robot that has 6 motors on just (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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| Ok, I haven't been around for a little while and I haven't seen any news at all about this, so I'm going to ask my fellow members: What's happening to the RIS?? The last update, 2.0, was not even close to being an update, all there was was some (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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