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Mindstorms' Next Generation
davey23sol writes: "MSNBC has a 2.0 review of Lego Mindstorms here. Looks like they have put in an easier programming system for users, touch and light sensors, and some other stuff. The transmitters for the infrared transmitters are now USB instead of serial, too. The new system will be $200, and if you have Mindstorms now the upgrade will just be $20. It should all be available this month. I can't wait to get one (never got around to getting my Mindstorms kit)." This review may not go into $200 worth of depth, so I look forward to more detailed reader reviews (and more pictures) when this is widely available :)
Everyone loves legos, but make a giant death robot out of them and destroy New York and suddenly you've gone too far!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
"I'll spell it Micro$loth Winblows in a Delicious Twist."
"I refer to them as Nutscrape and Internet Exploder, respectively."
I call it AO Hell, because I'm yet another cocksucker!
Yeah, first you learned architecture from it, then you decided to go for the, "I am death, I am the destroyer of worlds" kind of thing?
:-)
Seems to me that most people built their legos just to destroy them.. I wonder if people got over their destructive vendetta after their lego fetish? Would the Oklahoma City bomber have not bombed Oklahoma City if he had played with legos?
Finally, engineers can build their girlfriends! (Although they wouldn't know what to say to her.)
"Old man yells at systemd"
How fast can you really blast IR anyway
299,792,458 meters per second.
I'm going to put together one of these robots and program it to sit at my keyboard and click Slashdot links. Every couple of minutes, it will take random lines from people's old posts and assemble a new comment. It's amazing what machines can do in place of humans.
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
From the article: Though I really wanted to build something that would fetch the newspaper or drive me to work, my girlfriend was much more realistic.
I wish I'd thought of making a realistic Lego girlfriend. Somebody should tell the guys at Columbia Internet.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
you suck(as in you live in a vaccum) it's actually much slower than that, like 299792457 meters per second through air.
Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
...heck, drop 128K in - more than enough!
"No LegoLander will ever need more than 128K!"
Bill Legates