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Re: mindstorms NXT
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 20:45:08 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Ignacio Martinez Vazquez wrote:

3. a higher price -- seriously, have you ever read through a Pitsco catalog?
Some of those kits are outrageously overpriced.

I bought my mindstorms from pitsco to save $50... (cost $150)

I'm talking about stuff like this:

http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=814

$1250 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 motors, 4 extra
rotation sensors, and a temperature sensor add up to about $175, so that leaves
$275, which must be for the software.

That's the point I was making . . . the ROBOLAB software in those sets make them
cost more for schools. However, it has a site license, so maybe it's not so bad
after all.



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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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