To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.roboticsOpen lugnet.robotics in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Robotics / 3592
3591  |  3593
Subject: 
Re: Star Wars Mindstorms = True
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:29:06 GMT
Viewed: 
958 times
  
Laurentino Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt> wrote:
LegOS, NQC (and all the others): Are you ready for starting all over
again in a new hardware/firmware platform? :-)

This was always a known risk.  If LEGO forces us to reverse engineer
another product, I think instead the "classic RCX" will become a hot item.
Hopefully LEGO will get a clue and release low-level interface
documentation next time around.  Firmware source, under something like the
MPL, would be even better.  LEGO is sitting on an untapped gold mine, I
hope they see that.

-Kekoa



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Star Wars Mindstorms = True
 
(...) (agreeing) I'd tend to think that any new environment would simply mean one more new environment -- and not the death of the old environment. AFAIK, for example, there are still groups of people today who write Apple ][ software and HP-11C (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Star Wars Mindstorms = True
 
(...) That article makes us believe that at least concerning LEGO, the MindStorms and CyberMaster sets were only the beginning of something much much bigger. I guess this list will never run out of topic, nor all those hackers out there out of (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

4 Messages in This Thread:


Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR