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Re: Future Mindstorm Releases?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:21:22 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> Jon Gilchrist <robots@DEELEETEf3p.com> writes:
> > There are other stirrings that *something* is happening with
> > Mindstorms, but nobody seems to know what.
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> Can you tell us more about those stirrings?
There were two things Jake said during his speech at Brickfest.
1) Mindstorms is NOT dead.
2) The future of Mindstorms is not the 2.0
With the popularity of FLL, I find it very unlikely LEGO would stop making the
RCX.
However, again because of the FLL, I doubt they will make the huge jump many
AFoLs are hoping for.
Steve
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| (...) I was told by the source from the company that 3.0 is scheduled for 2006. But that means nothing, I think, schedules can change any time and products get scratched. For the closer future, I'd be interested what the hell is that strange (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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