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Re: New sensors from Pitsco-Dacta
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:39:34 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, "Pink Tail" <pinkmice@borg.com> writes:
> Wow! You're not kidding. I thought my $40 designs were a bit
> over the top (1/3 cost of basic RCX) but $128 is crazy. If people
> really are going to pay these prices, then maybe we should make
> lego specific devices more accessible.
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> How much interest is there out there for these more exotic sensors
> built specifically for RCX use?
I think the question is how much the sensor does for the money. I have just
finished a design for a line tracker sensor, that cost a lot to develop (half
a dozen prototypes, and a couple of tiny PCB's), but the cost to build would
only be a very few dollars (the most expensive bits would be the PCB's).
However in a production enviroment I would expect these to only cost a very
few dollars. I would probably accept a price of 128 dollars, for an absolute
location sensor (X/Y position), but it would have to be very sophisticated,
and do something that cannot be acheived by an easier method...
Best Wishes
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| Wow! You're not kidding. I thought my $40 designs were a bit over the top (1/3 cost of basic RCX) but $128 is crazy. If people really are going to pay these prices, then maybe we should make lego specific devices more accessible. How much interest (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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