At 08:58 AM 7/22/98 -0500, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
Nope, try
http://www.legomindstorms.com/
Ron
For those of you who also like to set aside a few hours every weekend to
>play with toys attached to your computer (as opposed to work :P ), I
>followed a clickthrough ad today that led to something fun, and certainly
>worth sharing.
>
>LEGO is beta testing a new set of LEGO robotic toys that come with a
>small, programmable (in much the same way a PalmPilot is programmable)
>CPU. You program on your computer, load the CPU, and build yourself the
>various robots. It's supposed to be able to create anything from sensory
>alarms to "intelligent" robots that can navigate based on your decision
>trees.
>
>In any event, this looks just like the kind of thing people who play with
>PERL and HTML all day would play with to release some frustrations. They're
>taking names for a beta
>program right now (starts 8/1), through which you can get a free set with
>software for your efforts. Thought I'd pass the URL along for the
>benefit of others who might want to play:
>
>http://www.legomindstorm.com/betatest
>
>They also have a cool, though very awkward due to frames implementation,
>site look. While you're there, the inventions page is worth a look
>(check out the ATM Candy Dispenser, which shows some pretty impressive
>power for a toy system--though I didn't see a demo for the most obvious
>use for such a thing . . . finding the darn TV remote :P). I'd love to
>see the average age of the people signing up for beta *chuckle*
>
>Anyway, enjoy.
>
>Brett
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