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Re: Ideal Expansion or Companion to RIS
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:38:56 GMT
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Which set is that? My catalog only shows the green bar code truck
#8479 at $164.
- Nick -
The WordMeister wrote:
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> My wife bought me the huge Code Pilot set for Christmas (taking advantage of
> the Lego S@H $99 price), and it is a near-perfect expansion to the RIS. Two
> clutch gears (!!!), another differential, great wheels, a zillion parts
> (well, more than 1,300 anyway), another motor, 2 touch sensors, 4 electrical
> cables, flex system parts (which I _think_ will be good for other robots as
> well), connectors in gray, black, and green, and green axles.
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> I finished building the extremely cool main model yesterday (I always build
> the main model once before the set becomes "parts"), and debugged it last
> night. (Okay, so staying up until 2:00 a.m. to build on
> the-day-after-Christmas did have a negative effect on my brain, despite
> simultaneously watching "Airline Disasters" on The Learning Channel to
> improve alertness. I discovered one place where I'd installed gears in the
> wrong place, used the wrong length cables 3 times during construction, and
> had to dismantle the cab at least 4 times to fix errors in it ...) Plus my
> 11-month-old son kept grabbing hands full of pieces and scattering them
> throughout the house or dumping them from one sorting bin into another. One
> turned up in my wife's baking pans cabinet. (He's so cute, though, and loves
> to handle the pieces. He also impressed me by trying to put axles into wheel
> hubs, and mimicking my scanning of the bar codes with the Code Pilot.)
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> It's a fairly tricky set to build. This is the first time I'd ever felt that
> needle-nosed pliers would be useful for piece placement (especially during
> my debugging and reconstruction phase), and the first time I'd
> double-checked assembly by using the photograph on the box. I learned some
> useful Technic building arrangements, as well as new concepts in geartrain
> design.
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> The Code Pilot itself isn't comparable to the RCX, but it is rather
> innovative. It will probably find its way into my Robot models, most likely
> as a separate drive motor or drive motor/bump sensor subsystem.
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> --Doug Wilcox
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