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LEGO robotics on a budget?
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Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:08:24 GMT
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Here's a question I thought might be interesting to discuss. What, in
people's opinions, are good ways of getting immersed into the building
of interesting programmable contraptions for relative newcomers to LEGO
who may not have heaping amounts of cash?
Obviously the Mindstorms RIS is a good start. But for more interesting
devices (like the ones in Mindstorms Masterpieces -- I am held in almost
speechless awe of the creative genius in people like Kevin and the other
authors), one eventually and invariably requires a far wider reaching
assortment of pieces. One can, of course, buy spare parts as one sees
they need them, but there are two problems I can see with that. One, I
am not sure that it is as fiscally efficient as buying larger numbers of
parts in prepackaged sets, and two, it's not particularly helpful for
people who need at least some amount of hands-on exerience with
something in order to visualize and invent a new and clever way of
adapting a mechanism into a device. Since a person on a budget cannot
realistically go out and buy "one of everything", they may end up
feeling constrained.
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) Buy the RIS (probably 2.0) and play around with it for a while. Get used to what you can do with the parts provided before you assume you'll need a gigantic pile of parts available just to get started. If you're working on a budget, the best (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: LEGO robotics on a budget?
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| I often have similar feelings of inadequacy, but to be honest, there is a huge amount and variety of things that can be done with the RIS out-of-the-box. I spent a lot of time on my "office-bot" platform (see (URL) ); when I ran out of engineering (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | RE: LEGO robotics on a budget?
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| I recently set out to buy the Ultimate Builders Expansion kit (I was after additional motors), but haven't been able to find it in the city yet (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). So, I decided to find a separate kit that would provide useful pieces to my (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: LEGO robotics on a budget?
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| (...) Hi Mark, I'm sure Lego would be happy that they hooked a potential lifer ;) I would recommend Team Challenge Set with Software W990977 apposed to RIS2.0 It can be found at Pitsco Lego Educational Division and retails for $226.00 dollars (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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