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Re: Where to begin ?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:54:13 GMT
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Dave,
If you can still lay your hands on it, get the Technic Space Shuttle. I know
it's an older set, but I still see them in shops occasionally (in the
Netherlands). Price is around US$ 120.
It comes with lots of gears, beams, plates, axles, parts for a gear box (!)
and two motors (an old technic motor, less powerful but faster, and a micro
motor, about the size of two 2x2 bricks stacked on top of each other). Both
motors can be controlled by the RCX. It also includes a turn table and a
battery box for driving the motors without the RCX.
Building the thing also gave me a lot of inspiration for applications of
technic parts I wouldn't have thought of myself. I took it apart later for
the parts of course.....
Arjen
David Johnston wrote in message ...
> Having recently purchased my RIS 1.5, faced the challenges within, perused
> NQC, PbForth, and the Spirit OCX, I came to the following conclusion.
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> I have the skills to use the programming languages of my choice, I have the
> RCX to control the robots I build, *but* I lack the significant quantity of
> useable LEGO components to build any of the interesting robots which I can
> envision.
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> Therefore I have one question for you all, which sets, kits, boxes, etc • would
> you recommend to establish the necessary (and significant) quantity of • gears,
> beams, plates, motors, etc. that I seemed destined to need to fulfill my
> creative urges. Do please bear in mind that cost (as always) is an option • and
> if you could give some rough idea of cost that would help significantly.
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> David Johnston
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> " ... the goal was to make things friendly and fairly intuitive, without
> insulting your intelligence" - Kai Krause
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