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Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:48:35 GMT
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I think you are right on...
Rand
"Chris Phillips" <drvegetable@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.robotics, Rand Krakora wrote:
> > I think we're starting to cross the boundary that lego faces, they want • this
> > thing to be used by kids ( and I guess adults now also ). If they jam a • ton
> > of I/O in the controller, the cost goes up, parents may tend not to buy • it
> > for their kids. But if they don't add more I/O, the adults will look
> > elsewhere for a more powerful controller.
>
> Reading this thread, I am struck by one thought: who would actually pay • for a
> souped-up RCX with intelligent sensors and BlueTooth in every sensor? I • could
> see BlueTooth in every RCX, but it would be overkill for talking with • sensors.
> A stand-alone sensor with its own microcontroller, watch battery (to go • dead)
> and a BlueTooth chip would cost $50 at least. The RIS 3.0 set would be • $500 if
> it included a set of components that was comparable to what 2.0 offers.
> Besides, could you imagine your typical hacker trying to build a custom • sensor
> if they had to imitate all of this functionality just to hook it up to the • RCX?
>
> Be careful what you wish for- you might actually get it.
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> I think it would be better for them to stick with hard-wired sensors, but • to
> scale down the RCX and make it smaller+cheaper so that you could afford to
> combine several RCXes in a single robot. This would give us the I/O • expansion
> capability that we (sometimes) desire.
>
> Even the concept of adding a Compact Flash slot seems misguided. Adding • an
> empty CF slot would probably cost as much or more than simply adding a • couple
> megs of memory right into the RCX, which is what you really want anyway.
>
> I do like very much Paul Kleniewski's axle electrical connector • replacement for
> the 2x2 electrical brick. It is much more compact (allowing for a smaller • RCX)
> and has the advantage of allowing a wire to be passed through a Technic • pinhole.
> Of course, I would hope that they would also create an adaptor brick to • convert
> one type of connector to the other so the old stuff would work with the • new.
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> The most important feature in my mind is to keep the system open so that
> hard-core fans can continue to create our own programming tools, sensors, • and
> actuators. Maybe they could even sell a reference manual that documents • all of
> the internals so that we don't have to wait 3 weeks for Kekoa to
> reverse-engineer the brick.
>
> Just my less-than-humble opinion.
>
> - Chris.
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