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Re: LEGO compatible 4.5 volt programmable brick
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:08:24 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
   I was fortunate enough to find 4 LEGO compatible 4.5 volt programmable bricks on Facebook Buy and Sell

I uploaded a few pictures here--

https://flic.kr/s/aHskKcnWEa

and I made a little video (with all the Dave tangents I could muster) here--

https://youtu.be/7NECA1q9-gU

I know I’m posting to what some would say is a very obscure site these days(LUGNET) about a very obscure finding (4.5 volt programmable brick) to a very defunct LEGO Technic theme (4.5 volt), but there will be a few of us ‘old timers’ that may appreciate this.

As well, in my sleuthing about for information, I haven’t, as yet, found ANY information about these programmable bricks on these here internets.

At all.

That I find to be surprising.

The information I do have--

The bricks themselves are labelled ‘ProCom SEQ’ and I believe it was a non-lego precursor to LEGO set 1093/9750--

https://guide.lugnet.com/set/1093

With the added bonus that you didn’t need a computer attached to the controller--it was all in the brick

After I took apart one of them, I found out that Paul R Spurgeon made these programmable bricks. Did a quick LUGNET serch, to no avail, then went to Facebook. Found out that there is a Paul Spurgeon that worked for our favourite company from 2000 - 2004 in the robotics development department, and he’s from the UK (and so are these bricks) and deduced that he’s the gentleman that I’m probably looking for to get more information on these devices.

But I’m posting here anyway.

If ANYONE at all has a manual or a ‘quick guide’ or any information on these ProCom SEQ bricks, I would appreciate a forward to me, or a link to something.

I love me a good mystery, and I’ve been having fun trying to ascertain how these things work, but a guide would be so much more helpful.

Anyway, here for your edification and historical trackability.

Dave K

I’ve been playing with this for over a week now, and I’ve created a few more videos--

https://youtu.be/BkBs5KvwV_0

https://youtu.be/71g4hc_Qvms

https://youtu.be/KNNjYBnxPe0

In these videos, I’ve showed my evolution of discovering how these boxes work.

The really cool bit about this process thus far is that the e-mail forwarding from lugnet.robotics is still working! I’ve received an e-mail response from a friend that received an e-mail from this very lugnet group, and the e-mails back and forth between us has made the discovery process so awesome!!

Anyway, I’m going to further detail what I’ve found out in a separate post (forthcoming) but I wanted to update this thread with the latest videos

Dave K



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  LEGO compatible 4.5 volt programmable brick
 
I was fortunate enough to find 4 LEGO compatible 4.5 volt programmable bricks on Facebook Buy and Sell I uploaded a few pictures here-- <https://flic.kr/s/aHskKcnWEa> and I made a little video (with all the Dave tangents I could muster) here-- (...) (6 years ago, 6-Dec-18, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)

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