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RE: Scout brick and IR
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:21:55 GMT
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> All this leads up to this question: With LEGO releasing a programing
> interface for the Scout next year, why do you think they would ditch so
> much of the RCX firmware and then create something different that could
> sill be programmed? Isn't that just reinventing the wheel?
> 
> Please give any ideas or comments you may have.

Best guess - to appeal to different segments of the market - the scout looks
'easy' to use for people with no computer or programming experience - but
they still keep a door open for those of us that have computers and are
crazy about programming things - I honestly think that they did the best to
please all of us - and still try to make money (afterall that's what firms
like Lego do) - raise your hand - how many of you people that have a RIS set
will NOT be buying/or want to buy the RDS? - and of those of you that DO buy
the RDS are pleased with the fact that this brick can be programmed as well?

regards

Jesper
mailto:jesperkj@vip.cybercity.dk



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  Re: Scout brick and IR
 
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. I believe the RDS Scout fills a nitch in the market that was lacking. When the RIS first came out, I was working at an educational toy store that sold it. Most kids that got one loved it but quite a few RISs did get (...) (27 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Scout brick and IR
 
I have been doing experiments with the Scout brick from the LEGO Robotics Discovery set and have come across a few things that have me scratching my head. Please excuse the length of this post. The Scout can understand two types of messages via it's (...) (27 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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