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Re: Thoughts on Turning
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:04:24 GMT
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Nick Taylor wrote:

Perspective #1:  As a teaching/learning tool the HB is a "real-life" micro-
controller that serves as a great intro to programming embedded
applications.  It was designed to do just that at M.I.T.

Perspective #2:  As a toy for the robotics hobbyist is provides a richer
programming environment than the LEGO RCX and greatly increases
both the input and output capabilities.

Perspective #1 makes the HB great for programmers.

Perspective #2 makes the HB great for robotics hobbyists.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned in another thread, the HB is totally unsuitable for
people who just want to play around with LEGO while having the benefit of a more
robust microcontroller than the RCX. (i.e. LEGO nuts that are power programmers but
not terribly experienced when it comes to robotics and their construction.)

Mark



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Mark - - - I do not understand why you want to get into a pissing contest about using the HandyBoard with LEGO robots. My first (and only) posting to you was an honest attempt to help you, and I apologized when I realised that it wasn't HB (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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Jim - - - Perspective #1: As a teaching/learning tool the HB is a "real-life" micro- controller that serves as a great intro to programming embedded applications. It was designed to do just that at M.I.T. Perspective #2: As a toy for the robotics (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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