 | | RE: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —Jason Cooper
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| | | We don't currently carry the "parts" that expand the MindStorms product line, but we're working to get a distributor account for those "Dacta" accesories. Check out (URL) for the extra sensors and stuff, for now. Also, for all you "hackers" out (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —Brett Carver
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| | | | | (...) And that's the catch (price). The reason I build my own sensors is due to the price. A touch sensor is a miniture momentary-on push-button mounted inside a block (with a wire and alligator clips to connect to the RCX). Basically free except (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | RE: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —Tilman Sporkert
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| | | | | | Here's a piece I could use: a touch sensor (switch) that is normally closed, with a diode in it. The diode could also be separate, in a brick with contacts on the top and the bottom, so you can stack the sensor, the diode, and your hookup wire. It (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —Brian Stormont
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| | | | (...) No matter what official sensors are sold, there will always be some new type of sensor someone wants to build. What I would find VERY useful would be a 3x2 lego block with the built in electrical contacts on the posts. Something like the empty (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —CyberUser
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| | | | In message <36493BCF.8BE4F5A8@projo.com>, Brian Stormont <brian@projo.com> writes (...) Has anyone taken apart the small yellow 2x2 connectors yet on the Cybermaster? It looks as if you might not be able to repair them. On my old 1092 TC-II, it was (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —Tony Firshman
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| | | | In article <QqqhbWADlXS2EwhF@mk...on.co.uk>, CyberUser <CyberUser @mksftwre.demon.co.uk> writes (...) Dunno about the cybermaster, but the wire links with black 4x4 connectors are very bad. Anyone who has visited Legoland Windsor will know a very (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —CyberUser
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| | | | I have some black ones as well, I think its for colour coding - yellow for sensors, black for third motor. I think I prefer the old grey cable as its more flexible. Perhaps the stiff thin black cable is supposed to last longer. On the Cybermaster (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: MindStorms at Robot Store (Hacking Lego Compatible Parts) —Amos Bieler
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| | | | (...) What about 2.5mm or 3.5mm phono plugs/sockets? Or even the small black plastic blocks like a PC's Reset switch, Power LED and internal speaker use? Amos "Long time listener first time caller" Bieler Look at my address umop episdn and turn (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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