Mike, wjr, Thanks for the posts. Here is a little more detail on our situation. I bought the Discovery set back on 2000 which has the Scout brick, so I guess that was pre-RIS 1.0. I used it with our then 6 year old son. We built the robots in the book but the programming options were limited, so haven't used it for a while.
Our son in now 11 years old, and I think he is ready to get back into building these robots. I'm a computer programmer (and like Java a lot), so would like to teach our 11 year old programming. I'm not able to get him interesting in the "Hello World", calculate prime number programs at this point, but do know he is interested in programming an a progam to make a robot move might do the trick. So, I recently pulled that "Discovery set" out, with the Scout brick. Initially I didn't know the distinctions between the "Scout", RCX 1.0, 1.5 or RCX 2.0. So, I just though I needed the IR transmitter and that was it. After getting the transmitter (without a CD to my suprise), I discovered that the "Blue brick" was not an RCX. So, now I'm looking for a "yellow brick" and extra sensors on eBay, since we have truck loads of legos. So, if I understand right from the lejos point of view there is NO difference between RCX 1.0 and 2.0 (although 1.0) has a power outlet? I'm going to look at all of those kits you mentioned. Alan ----- Original Message ---- From: William J. Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Smith, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Alan Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:29:18 AM Subject: Re: [Lejos-discussion] Do you need the RIS 2.0 CD to use lejos? Do not get the robo technology (9786) set (unless, of course, you don't want to build any robots). Get the team challenge (9790) set that's about $50 more. It includes all the parts from the RIS 1.0 & 2.0 sets and an extra light sensor. The robo technology set, which I have one of, has 217 pieces vs 726 in team challenge. wjr Smith, Mike wrote: > Alan, > > No you don’t need the cd, you can download the tower driver from legos > site. The file name is Tower164.zip. Also if you’re looking for an rcx > legoeducation has a set called ROBO Technology Set. These are version 1.0 of > the rcx they are the same as the 2.0 except they have a power jack which is > nice to have. And you’ll be getting a new brick not a used one. > > > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alan Snyder > Sent: Thu 10/26/2006 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: [Lejos-discussion] Do you need the RIS 2.0 CD to use lejos? > > > > First posting here. > > I've got an old Lego discovery kit (Scout version) and would like to just > buy an > RIS 2.0 brick and an IR transmitter to start using lejos. > > The RIS 2.0 bricks I've seen on eBay however don't seem to have the CD-ROM > with it. So this is my question. If I have an IR transmitter, which I > bought > from Lego Education (and didn't have the RIS 2.0 CD) and buy a brick from > eBay is that all I need to start using lejos? > > Or do I need to find an RIS 2.0 CD too? > > Thanks, > Alan > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Lejos-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lejos-discussion > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Lejos-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lejos-discussion > > > -- William J. Rust, PhD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Lejos-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lejos-discussion
