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Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:04:17 GMT
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Steve! What a great Idea, having components that you could snap together
like code blocks but with real Lego! What a natural idea. If I understand
your idea right, you could have a small,say, 4x4 or 2x4 bick ROM computer
that has a dedictaed function? Like a "watch for sensor brick" or a "light
detection brick".............
Each would have a small LCD ontop to access options?
or evan simple gate switches to enable the component to arm/disarm - right
on a 2x2 or something?!
Bricks and Chips!
Then some bricks work together to become conduits for other signals(nearby
bricks)?
Little RCX 1 function w/3 option accessablie bricks?
R&D!!! R&D!!! R&D!!! Come on guys chant it! chant it! R&D!!! R&D!!! R&D!!!
> What I wanted to see happen would have solved that problem quite neatly.
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> If Lego designed a SMALL computer which had an external bus onto which could
> be plugged ROM chips (packaged in - say - a standard 2x2 brick), then they
> could sell the computer with a ROM that has "play value" (makes the robot
> play 'tag' with a flashlight or something). There could be a whole range of
> ROM chip bricks with different and "interesting-to-kids" programs in them - >and
> a Flash-ROM chip that you could program yourself as an optional extra (presumably
> with some kind of a PC interface and a CD-ROM full of Lego-esque programming tools).
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> This would allow kids an easy entry into robotics - collecting pre-programmed ROM's
> that do fun things - then an upgrade path to something just like Mindstorms.
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> If you got a little smart about it, I bet you could design ROM-bricks with
> flow-chart elements printed on them that could be stacked to build programs...
> then progress to a CD-ROM that let you stack 'virtual' ROM-bricks to generate
> programs that could be downloaded into a Flash-memory-brick. Kids would be
> able to slide from a physical programming metaphor into a virtual version of
> the same thing.
> ---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
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| (...) To be absolutely honest, I don't think this is my idea - I think I've seen something a lot like that built as a college project. (...) That might be unreasonably costly. I was thinking of having a little knob that you'd turn to select (for (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That's pretty depressing - if Spybotics don't make money, Mindstorms is doomed - and if Spybotics does make money Mindstorms *is* Spybotics...so we're still doomed. (...) What I wanted to see happen would have solved that problem quite neatly. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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