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Re: new pics on legomindstorms.com
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:29:07 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <LMARTINS@MARKTEST.ihatespamPT>
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At 16:05 13-07-1999 Tuesday , you wrote:
> 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...
I don't agree.
Although I'm a experienced programmer, I think I can visualize a graphics-like programming environment that would accomplish just what you said.
Besides, many kids these days already have the knowledge on how programming flow works (if->then->else, while->do, etc), and I doubt that with a good help and maybe wizards, examples and step-by-step on-screen instructions that would not be accomplishable. It seems to me LEGO has the potential to create this kind of environment. ... By the way, have you seen the CyberMaster CD-Rom building instructions?
Laurentino Martins
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[ 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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| (...) Oh, I'm sure it could be written- but, at least judging from their other titles, I'm not sure TLG is the group to do it. I mean, if they wanted to do it/could have done it, they would have allowed more than 32 variables in the current (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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