On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:53:34AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Yes, but I have to justify the expense to certain other family members.... Is it still about $400?
In my opinion it is an expensive toy, but worth it if you are no good with a soldering iron.
Not only am I not so good with an iron, I don't even have one!
but you can probably get one and someone to teach you for less :-)
OK. So now I'm curious. How much would it cost to get the raw materials and whip up a half-decent robot?
I think that lego has some advantages:
It's modular. Take it apart and build something else.
It's clean.
You don't need solder. (Not that I don't mind. From a child's point of view, you understand)
It's easy to build for a child.
With the windows GUI programming language, it seems easy for a child to do some simple coding.
Those advantages are probably worth the price tag, no?
Cheers, Carl.
