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Robot Lego

All Acting Regiment

10:45 / 18.01.06

You may or may not know about Lego Mindstorms. It's basically like that Lego technic but you connect it to a 32-bit computer brick that downloads programs form your PC or Mac, and then you can set it to walk around and do stuff.

Would you get it for your kids? Should I get it for my younger relatives? Would you get it for you? Is personalised robotics "teh" "future"?

Spaniel

10:58 / 18.01.06

I suspect I'll be buying it whether or not my son actually asks for it. You know, for me, like.

Axolotl

11:27 / 18.01.06

Though I have no direct experience with robotic lego, I've heard that due to Lego being generous with the source code it is in fact one of the most powerful robotics systems available to the general public.

w1rebaby

12:12 / 18.01.06

I was reading that there's a new version out which is supposed to be triffic. I don't know how appropriate it is for children though, unless they are either relatively old or really geeky.

My robotics prof's office was always full of lego robots. It was a little cupboard with piles of random paper on every flat surface, and on top of every reasonably stable pile was a lego robot. I never saw them actually do anything though, so they could have just been fakes. Or maybe as soon as my back was turned they scuttled about trying to take over the world, as robots are wont to do.

Which reminds me - if you do get some and build anything, make sure that you untick the checkbox marked "EVIL" when you're programming it.

All Acting Regiment

12:20 / 18.01.06

Hmm. Are the forms and strucutures of Lego parts fit to be scaled up, I mean should you want to make a digger robot to make a quarry with, could you just scale up Lego bits and have them do the job?

Saveloy

12:35 / 18.01.06

*suspicious*

What are you planning, Legba?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:38 / 18.01.06

Just don't let Evil Scientist see this thread.

Or Mordant, for that matter.

Saveloy

12:44 / 18.01.06

My son was given a gigantic box full of Lego by his cousins, who no longer played with it. It included a couple of Mindstorms motors and a load of sensors. So, if anyone has the computery bit and the software and suddenly decides they don't want it, lemme know, would ya?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:24 / 18.01.06

*hastily steps in front of workbench, raises welding mask*

What?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:26 / 18.01.06

Shit.

LEGGIT!!!!!

Keith, like a scientist

14:10 / 18.01.06

haha

I dunno much about Mindstorms first hand, but it's quite popular with the kids. My bosses little daughter was apparently participating in some kind of League Competitions the past couple of days that was all about Mindstorms stuff.

First Lego League

Wombat

05:26 / 19.01.06

Wow. Bluetooth and ultrasound sensors.
You could have robots with flocking behaviour.
heh you could build a ground bat...with lobster claws.

I`m gonna buy it for me. (possibly 2 sets if there is only one ultrasound sensor..can you by separate bricks?)
And for any younger relatives who show the tinyest shred of interest in tech. Does it work with technical lego?

Char Aina

05:45 / 19.01.06

For more stable building with improved functionality, this set comes with a highly versatile collection of 519 LEGO TECHNIC elements.

from the faq.

the shop page for accesories has spare sensors, but no ultrasonic or bluetooth radio ones

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