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| | | (...) Whoa, how about checking that attitude right there. Your inflection: "That guy has *way* too much time on his hands!" is a little offending. You speak of great concepts yet admit to not carrying them out. I build what I think I can accomplish (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? —Steve Baker
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| | | | | (...) My profound apologies - I didn't mean it to come out like that. It's dangerous to infer an inflection from an email. That expression frequently means "Wow - that's amazing - I really wish I had the time and patience to do that - but I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | (...) And I too appologize for calling you on that, I'm just sensitive to that because I fear that same perception has taken hold of a few. Your a sport thanks! (...) I see. (...) That's cool. Infact, I am starting to open up to the possibilities (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? —Kyle McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) I agree with this wholeheartedly. And I think that LEGO is missing out on great opportunities in this market because of these limitations. I know LEGO can't afford to cater to only the AFOL, but I believe that there are many (I don't know how (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? —Dan Simonson
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| | | | | | | | -snip-. (...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) I'm an AFOL in training :-). Seriously, I've been angry at what Lego's been pumping out since I was in 5th grade (I'm going into 10th now, but still the same matter), and I really think they need (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? - Advanced alternatives: JCX, Embedlets —Bruce Boyes
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| | | | | | (...) I agree whole-heartedly. This is the idea behind JCX which has now been in development for over a year, and has been rather extensively alpha-tested at a major university. This past fall students at the University of Utah were able to use the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? - Advanced alternatives: JCX, Embedlets —Bruce Boyes
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| | | | | | (...) One of the "sticky bits" has been designing a manufacturable Lego(tm) compatible connector. We have prototypes and have yet to order the several thousand for production. We don't plan an enclosure per se, at least not now, but will use Lego (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? —Brass Tilde
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| | | | (...) Hmmmm. I read that as Steve commenting on *other* people pointing as *his* work with that comment and the attitude "Well, it's really cool, but what's it good for?", and wanting to avoid that. Brass (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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