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Robot lab users, Does the icon based system of robot lab compare well to the firmware system? Would you think it work as well with young children as firmware seems to? Does anyone know what the new advantages of the new 1.5 are? I know the group had (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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It is much better than the mindstorms software and has three levels of difficulty. It is well worth the extra money. Jim Clark (...) -- There is Love in the Red Letters. There is truth in the Red Letters. There is hope for the hopeless, tears and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So, you would recommend it for young children? (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Does anybody know if the Robot Lab uses the same spirit.ocx as the RIS? Howbout the new RIS 1.5 version, is the spirit.ocx still the same? -- et Jim & Linda Clark <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:37EEC609.BFFC86...oot.com... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Robolab doesn't use spirit.ocx. It does use the exact same RCX and firmware, however. Dave Baum (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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So it seems that the spirit.ocx can't utilize the full potential of the firmware. Have any idea why LEGO didn't that way? What is the main functionality that the firmware provides but the spirit.ocx won't support? -- et Dave Baum (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The Spirit OCX is a set of libraries that easily integrate with the Microsoft Windows operating systems. With it you can remotely control the brick (real-time) and also create standalone programs and also download them to the brick. You can (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The spirit.ocx[*] can be consider as a LEGO's official API for programming the RCX and CyberMaster. Still wondering why the RoboLab won't use the spirit.ocx. Howbout the RIS. It compiles the visual statements and expressions to byte-code and stores (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yes I would recommend it for young children. So far the youngest ROBOLAB programmer on record is 4 years old (or maybe 3). There are many things in the new ROBOLAB 2.0 (out soon) such as scientific data graphing and analysis [see the pictures in the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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