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Re: LEGO robotics on a budget?
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Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:09:03 GMT
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Doug Wilcox <DWILCOX@WORDSMITHDIGITAL.spamlessCOM>
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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
http://mindstorms.wilcoxfamily.net ); when I ran out of engineering
improvements I'd work on different programs for its behavior - line
following, collision recovery, etc.
It's important to just play and learn, and not worry about the fact that
your creations might not be cutting edge. I still feel like I am a normal
human among giants, but I've come a long way from my first creation that
shook itself to pieces in 10 seconds.
Also, you'll find this group extremely friendly to newbies - which may make
it unique among mailing lists. You'll be appreciated for whatever you create
or contribute, and the list will provide inspiration for small projects as
well as large - even if, at times, you find it a bit overwhelming.
Play well!
--Doug Wilcox.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tarrabain" <markt@lynx.net>
To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:08 AM
Subject: LEGO robotics on a budget?
> 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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