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Re: End of Mindstorms :-( - I'm very skeptical
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Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:59:31 GMT
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Bruce Boyes <bboyes@systronix.com%Spamless%>
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At 04:40 PM 10/4/2003 +0000, chrismaker wrote:
> Hi Everybody, I have the badest new of the world:
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> LEGO stop Mindstorms products.
I'm very skeptical about this...
Last week I was in LegoLand at Billund, Denmark. They are adding _more_
interactive Mindstorms exhibits, based on the Mars Lander. I also had
meetings at Aarhus University with people who work in the Lego lab there:
http://www.legolab.daimi.au.dk/
and conducted an all-day seminar on JCX and use with Legos.
We left three production JCX systems there, in Lego trackbot chassis, with
working sonar navigation. Here's the start of a web page detailing these,
with photos and video:
http://jcx.systronix.com/appnotes/SonarTrackbot/SonarTrackbot.html
At no time was there any mention of RCX being discontinued. In fact it is
very much alive and well and is being used in a number of educational
programs as you can see at the legolab link above. I especially like the
Feelix facial expression robot:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~chili/feelix/feelix_home.htm
We've just purchased several for use with JCX, and had no trouble
purchasing RIS 2.0 systems at local ToysRUs. They are available from Lego.com.
So until there is some official word from Lego I'd delay a funeral for RCX
or Mindstorms. As Mark Twain said "The reports of my death have been
greatly exaggerated".
But a related question - is the Robosports add-on still available? I can't
find any stock online at Lego, Amazon, and other Lego dealers.
Regards
Bruce
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| Consider that the FIRST LEGO League registered the following number of teams so far this Challenge Season: NORTH AMERICA 3.359 teams registered SCANDINAVIA 325 teams registered GERMANY 94 teams registered UNITED KINGDOM 92 teams registered FRANCE 52 (...) (21 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi Everybody, I have the badest new of the world: LEGO stop Mindstorms products. I hear it of several persons, LEGO shop on Paris (they won't receive other RIS box or additional box) and also from LEGO staff. They have stoped RIS production 3 months (...) (21 years ago, 4-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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