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| Hi Does anyone know when the RIS 2.0 will be released or what it will contain or any other info and snippets of anything. I'd even settle for hearsay I'm getting that desperate for info. Will it be out for Christmas is the big Q? Thanks Mike (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Spring 2001. They have to sell of the 1.5's... From what I remember reading the 2.0 will have. USB IR Tower The power adapter port is back It will look the same as the 1.0 but will have the back raised bit (Near the power adapter port) lowered (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| Thanks Dean, where did you get your info - have you an inside source? Or would you have to kill me if you told me??? I was kind of hoping that the next RCX would be a bit smaller. Some nice Lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Some more I/O. More (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) If I remember correctly it was posted to the Mindstorms Web site briefly... I've told all I know about it. (...) My hope is that the new firmware part in ROM will contain Hardware support for new Sensors. Proximity, Compass etc... Hey, I can (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| Great info! USB IR tower sounds good, I want to use my IR tower with my iBook, but I'm too lazy to buy an USB/Parallell port... I'm planning to use MacNQC then, but AFAIK, MacNQC doesn't "know" that there is a USB port on my computer... Or will it (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) USB/SERIAL you mean. (...) Yes, if it works like the PC once it's plugged in the drivers tell the OS that there is a "Serial Port" for it. Then it works just fine. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
| | | | | Re: RIS 2.0 - when, where, what??
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| Take a look at (URL). See the dog? Is it MIBO? If we can really build that dog out of the box, then RIS 2.0 might as well be the best Technic Universal set Lego has ever released. Look at the rotation sensor, the shock absorbers, and all those turn (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| Oh, wow!! If that set is even half as good as it looks in the picture, that will be one set everyone will be scrambling to pick up!! Mind you, I do hope they don't expect to put a $390 price tag on it and expect people to pay that much for it!! Mind (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| I don't think so - I seem to remember seeing this somewhere before, built with a humble RCX 1.0/5. Actually, if you look closely, you'll see it contains 2 RCXs, one below the other on an angle. Not much chance of TLC including 2 with the set.... (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| Yeah, that was Jin Sato's. It's featured in his book on Mindstorms, and on his site: (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I take that back. Apparently Jin Sato didn't make that, he just talked about it in the book. I guess I never really noticed MIBO in that picture before. *feeling dumb* sorry... -jeremiah- (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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