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Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 7 Jan 1999 01:09:45 GMT
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Mark Tarrabain wrote
> I have made the following personal observations about LEGO, and why it is • my
> medium of choice for robot building.
<snip... a number of good reasons with which I agree (except for the
Popsicle sticks and rubber-bands... good-god Man! have you gone _mad_? :)
(1)
> Moving back to a subject more in line with the original subject of this
> thread, in my original post, I was not so much lamenting the limitations of • the
> RCX itself (well, maybe a little... but that wasn't the point I was • actually
> trying to make). Rather, I was primarily expressing frustration over the • lack
> of viable options in the way of a robust microcontroller board that fully
> integrates with LEGO in the same way that makes LEGO so much fun to work • with in
> the first place.
Ahhh! Soooo, It is not so much lamenting the RCX, but rather lamenting a
more robust microcontroller's (which ever one you care to choose) lack of
Lego-ness. ;)
Makes sense!
I fell my earlier rambling still has merit, but perhaps your original post
should not have be referenced as it's impetus.
1. My <tongue-in-cheek> comments on Lego Purity should be taken with a
grain of salt, as it is appearing more and more like I may be dancing with
the Radio Shack devil sooner than later. Oh well, you can't have a religion
without sinners ;)
LINC
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| Just a question, Where an inmature lego follower can find the Lego Purity Commandments? I am a kind of new in this _religion_, but I hardly try not to be a sinner. Thanks for the Light in the Darkness, David (...) -- Did you check the web site (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place?
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| I have made the following personal observations about LEGO, and why it is my medium of choice for robot building. LEGO is very easy to assemble. You can figure out what you want beforehand, without really needing to worry too much about (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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