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Re: Mindstorms destroy my pocketbook!
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:05:02 GMT
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The WordMeister <dwilcox@wordsmithdigital.com#Spamcake#>
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I find my biggest impediment to robotic progress is being unwilling to
disassemble even half-finished bots.
::: snif :: I can't justify the expense of a half-decent digital camera at
the moment (even for my desktop publishing business). Perhaps soon ...
Anyone have a "half-decent" PC-compatible digital camera for sale?
--Doug Wilcox
See my half-baked Lego MindStorms site at
http://www.wordsmithdigital.com/mindstorms/ .
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Naunton <mmn@interactive.net>
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:51 PM
Subject: Mindstorms destroy my pocketbook!
> Mine is a tale of woe....
>
> My officemate pointed me to the Mindstorms website. I peeked, and
> within 24 hours was at the local Discovery Center looking at a RIS 1.0
> and the Games addon. A nice salesclerk came up and explained that the
> Games set was just an addon... I needed the RIS just to play. I sighed
> noncomittally, and continued to heft the kits in my hands. After 10
> minutes of watching me look at the boxes, the nice lady returned with a
> 25% off store coupon! I immediately grabbed two of the RIS sets
> (already I was not thinking clearly: there were three in the store.)
> Not a bad deal thinks I... 2 kits for $300.
>
> I began to build robots, and then I found my real character flaw: I
> can't wantonly destroy a robot I've made unless I record a few pictures
> of it for posterity. So, today, I had to buy a digital camera (DCR
> PC-100) to memorialize my sad inventions.
>
> Does anyone else have this disease?
>
> -- Michael Naunton
>
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