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(...) Darn it, you beat me to posting this! :-P Anyway, I can't WAIT until this is released. I help my local elementary school every year with the FIRST LEGO League competition, so hopefully they will use this kit. I will more than likley save up (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Is this going to be totally incompatible with the old Mindstorms?? That would be devastating to people with investments in the existing system. Gyl (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow, that really looks very cool and as someone already said, kudos to the few that followed that NDA to the line, that's a BIG secret to keep for a mindstorms fan. Now we know who to blame for the things we don't like ;D . Anyway, I don't want to (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Speculation: I think we're looking at some sort of i2c-like type interface here, where you'll find continuous power on one of the pairs and the other two pairs being used as some sort of high-speed digital bidirectional full-duplex or (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I will speculate with you here. If I was a betting man, I would bet that they just made 3 of them "motor" ports because of power limitations. I highly doubt they used USB. Of course, you could always plop a usb hub into that port and make your (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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-----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Gyl Midroni Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:13 PM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com Subject: Re: mindstorms NXT (...) Is this going to be totally (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) from the botmag page... "A special version for school and institutional use is also releasing later this year." (URL) (and better) than the consumer version ? Ray (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm not sure about other AFOLs, but I'm not purist and have been considering (quite energetically) adding an Atmel ARM7 board to my robot, interfacing to the RCX via I2C/IR (from Mindsensors.com) and using BT or USB just changes the interface issue (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nothing about the new system appears to be electrically compatible. I suspect that someone will make an electronic bridge device. Obviously, being LEGO, it is all mechanically compatible. (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That probably just means it will have 1. a more powerful programming environment, just like the ROBOLAB software in the Mindstorms for Schools sets is better than the RCX Code software that ships with Mindstorms 2.0 sets. 2. specific sets for (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I bought my mindstorms from pitsco to save $50... (cost $150) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm talking about stuff like this: (URL) for the start-up pack, which is for eight paired students. The Team Challenge with USB set is $200, and you get four of them. That's still just $800, so there's another $450 worth of stuff. 4 extra (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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