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Re: Working around the 3 output limitation
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:46:42 GMT
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Simon Brooke <simon@jasmine.org.&AvoidSpam&uk>
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Linc Smith wrote:
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> This is a little ramble on the subject.
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> The ideas in the later posts of this thread are in my opinion what Lego
> **is**. It is innovation in the face of "limited" options. It is creativity
> and problem solving. When I bought my Mindstorms it said right on the
> Box... three in and three out. The collective effort of this group has
> exceeded that limitation in the first week of tinkering. We have now have
> new software, firmware, sensors, ect. Gems keep popping up on this group
> every week!
I think this is right. After all, we could all start with an asortmaent
of bits of metal and plastic and a hobby engineering shop, and build
arbitrary robot designs; and *probably*, it wouldn't cost a huge amount
more than the mindstorms kit (and all the other kits you then buy
because you've got hooked).
The LEGO *thing*, in my opinion, is about doing what you can with the
bits you are 'given'; which is why I personally slightly regret some of
the more specialised pieces in some of the recent LEGO kits.
Incorporating non-LEGO bits is to my mind sort of 'cheating' (although
my current walker uses cable-ties to keep some of it's cables neatly in
place).
Having said that at some stage I'm going to hook a compass up to my RCX,
because I can't think of any other way of building a robot which can
navigate it's domain.
--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
-- mens vacua in medio vacuo --
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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