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Re: new pics on legomindstorms.com
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:05:36 GMT
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Luis Villa <liv@+NoMoreSpam+duke.edu>
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I think our/their problem is not so much marketing to grownups (I mean, I
can buy it whether or not the market it to me.) The big problem is that
they will never sell anything that they cannot sell to kids. This means
that they are limited by their programming interface. If they thought they
could get 10 year olds to program with a dozen sensors and six outputs,
they would. But I think they know their interface is too limited to do
serious multi-input work with, and so they are stuck- since they can't
find a way to let kids program a new more complex robot, they won't sell
it, even though we (teh adults) would do great things with it. Oh well...
-Luis
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Laurentino Martins wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:53:34 +0100
> From: Laurentino Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt>
> To: Lego-Robotics <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
> Subject: Re: new pics on legomindstorms.com
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> At 15:31 13-07-1999 Tuesday , you wrote:
> > For those of you who are interested, there are new pictures up at
> > legomindstorms.com of the droid development kit and the new scout kit.
> > Unfortunately, both of them look pretty limited, though the idea of an
> > R2-D2 running around the house does sound pretty cool. They will be much
> > better suited for kids than the current product, though, so perhaps there
> > is hope for the "high end" to move up to more sophisticated stuff which
> > will be cooler for those of us who are old enough to see PG-13 rated
> > movies.
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> Until now I've never seen LEGO target a product to grownups. They don't seem acknowledge our existence at all!
> They probably think we are too less to even pay the development costs of a product targeted at us, a product that it will never be profitable.
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> I only wish someone at LEGO read this list...
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> Laurentino Martins
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> [ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ]
> [ http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/ ]
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> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
>
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