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RE: Mindstorms on Slashdot
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:28:15 GMT
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Lawrence Whitman <larry.whitman@wichitaNOSPAM.edu>
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I do agree with most of the comments about the blogging on slashdot,
(especially about costing a product by its components only) but...
There are two things no one has said that I want said (I wanted someone else
to say it though!)
1) At the last two Brickfest's TLG made innuendo's that there was a
Mindstorms 3.0 or something coming out soon (which I took to mean this
Christmas 2005, which is obviously wrong now). No new word on this? I looked
at LegoFan the other day just to see if there were any comments about it,
but that topic died several months ago as far as I can tell.
2) When you manufacture something for a long period of time, typically
either the price reduces after a while or a new version comes out. I would
think that the initial costs for the RCX have already been covered and they
could lower the price of the RCX. But, I guess that is unless you have a
captive market....
Larry W.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Boyes [mailto:bboyes@systronix.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 2:16 PM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
>
> At 11:57 AM 11/28/2005, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> > > This link makes for interesting reading.
> > > http://www.techuser.net/lego.html Something doesn't gibe • but I can't say quite what.
> >
> > It's a very funny story. I really tried to read the whole • thing, but I can't.
> > I've spent too much time laughing.
>
> Agreed. My favorite statement is this:
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> "The picture below shows an RCX brick along with a gaming
> device of Chinese make that incorporates components similar
> to the ones used in the RCX. The gaming device was purchased
> for approximately $1.83 from a mom-and-pop retail store, and
> it is missing only the IR communication and motor/sensor
> control circuitry... therefore, the original equipment
> manufacturer's cost of making the gaming device must be less
> than fifty cents."
>
> I don't believe the RCX is made in China, using knock-off
> (clone) parts. It's amazing how inexpensive the China
> products can be. A lot of their ICs are illegal ripoffs,
> complete with fake OEM vendor markings, which don't meet the
> spec of the parts they are cloning.
> But, they are cheap!
> http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jul/bch20050726031526.htm
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> The ThinkPads are now made by Lenovo in China, and they are
> all about $10 now, right?
>
> If you add up the prices of the ICs in an RCX you get quite a
> different number from $1...
>
> The slashdotter forgot one small item too: the per-unit cost of NRE.
> This is perhaps the reason the Pentium chips are not just the
> price of the raw silicon wafer used to make them.
>
> Bruce
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