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RE: Scout brick and IR
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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