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| | | I'm still wow'd by the fact no one is talking about this... anyone have more info? Among the still-to-be-seen items: the Furby Yoda, which combines last year's hottest toy with this year's hottest entertainment property, and Lego Mindstorms' Droid (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | RE: Build your own R2! —Mark Benz
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| | | | | Hi, What you left off was: Of the latter, (droid dev. kit) especially, analyst Leibowitz is already predicting holiday shortages a full half-year in advance. M -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Build your own R2! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) There's been information and discussion on this set. There's a brief blurb at (URL). Also search for online news articles. General consensus (around here) was "Why'd they make his head out of big, printed pieces?" and "Why'd they dumb down the (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Build your own R2! —Christopher Masi
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| | | | (...) At first I thought this too, but as long as LEGO keeps making the RCX with 3 inputs and outputs then a smaller one may be a good idea. A smaller less exspensive computer may be able to do things its bigger brother cannot. For example, people (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Build your own R2! —Jason Fabisch
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| | | | | (...) them (...) Lego World Shop at home sells them for 129.99 each. This can be found at the mindstorm website. Contact me if you can't find it. I was able to order the remote control. Temp and rotation sensors are available also for 20-25 (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Build your own R2! —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | | Thanks, for the correction. I went to the Mindstorms site accesible from the LEGO catalogue site and I did not see the RCX brick listed by itself; however, the extra sensors were there. (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | RCX from Pitsco —John Gerlach
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| | | | | (...) RCX Brick: Item # N979709 - $120 (plus S&H) Pitsco: 1-800-362-4308 John (of course, drop the ".nospam" to reply...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Build your own R2! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) When I wrote "dumbed-down", I didn't mean smaller. From the published information, it's not clear, but it's possible the mini-scout will not be programmable. Instead, it will be preprogrammed with 7 "behaviours" which can be initiated. Search (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Build your own R2! —Christopher Masi
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| | | | (...) OK, I thought you meant the input count, but I do remember reading the behavior thing....but I thought I read that statement associated with the remote control; that is, the remote control could activate the progamed behaviors. You are right (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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