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Re: What is LEGO Dacta eLAB?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:15:23 GMT
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The URLs are working today.  Guess they got many questions over the
weekend over the mangled information.

Pitsco LEGO Dacta has it on their web site also:
http://www.pitsco-legodacta.com/html/Lego%20dacta%20eLAB.htm

Very interesting but kind of expensive.

Christopher Good



On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 21:51:14 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

Does anyone know of a decent official source of information about a new
Dacta product called "eLAB"?  I'm looking at the official website,

  http://www.lego.com/dacta/

which has a link to

  http://www.lego.com/dacta/elab/default.htm

which forwards to

  http://www.lego.com/dacta/elab/defaultdecaf.htm

but all the image URLs are mangles, so it's difficult to get a sense for
what it is, assuming the images are actually pictures rather than rendered
text.  It's possible that the pages aren't fully ready for prime-time yet,
but they -did- link to it from the main Dacta page.  Oh well, anyway...

From the market-speak, it seems to be some kind of special LEGO set or sets,
sold by Dacta or Pitsco-Dacta, designed for classrooms and maybe having some
cool stuff, but it's hard to tell whether it really really has new elements
and/or sensors, or whether it's a workbook-style package of educational
materials.

Sounds like one of the sets may have a new 1 Farad, 2.5-4v capacitor element
with a built-in red LED (light-emitting diode) that lights up when it's
fully charged:

  http://www.lego.com/dacta/elab/main4capacitor.htm

Says it'll store 3.125 Joules.  How long will that power a free-spinning
micromotor?

Sounds like there's also a 2.5-3v solar cell element, also with an LED:

  http://www.lego.com/dacta/elab/main4solarcell.htm

--Todd



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Does anyone know of a decent official source of information about a new Dacta product called "eLAB"? I'm looking at the official website, (URL) has a link to (URL) forwards to (URL) all the image URLs are mangles, so it's difficult to get a sense (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)

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