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Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place?
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Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:29:37 GMT
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Nick Taylor <ntaylor@iname.com>
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Dear David my sinful son,
The first step on the path to redemption to for you to tithe
ten percent of your LEGOs to *me* every month!
- - - Nick - - -
David Colomer wrote:
> 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
>
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: news@lugnet.com [mailto:news@lugnet.com]En nombre de Linc Smith
> > Enviado el: Miércoles 6 de Enero de 1999 10:10 PM
> > Para: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> > Asunto: Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place?
> >
> >
> > 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
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
>
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Message has 1 Reply: ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: So why build robots out of LEGO in the first place?
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| Reverent Legoists, For a mere five percent of your legos I will send you special cans of Lego(tm) air. I bring this down once a week from the top of Mount Lego(tm). This air can be used in all of your pneumatic devices. Also, for those holiest of (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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