Lego Robotics?

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I have always dreamed of owning a robot. Also, I think Lego is perhaps the greatest invention ever. And the other day I discovered there are actually programmable Lego robots! Does anyone own one of these? Are they fun? What can you make them do?

http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/products/ris/index.asp

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

These have been around for a long time. They are very expensive, but LEGO always was.

Lots of links here to what people have done with them:

http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's hard to imagine any way in which they possibly not be fun.

"What can you make them do?"

Unspeakably wrong and depraved things, I expect.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

They are lovely, but have always been out of my price range. I must content myself with admiring them from afar.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto.

― kephm, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder if they still have the lego "star wars droids" series. hubba hubba

― kephm, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

As far as I know, yes. I still see them (and yearn for them) whenever I am in a toy store.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/products/dsdk/index.asp

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

FAO Schwartz has a whole electroclash band of Lego Robots!

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/July4/legoclash2.jpg

[photo credits: Ally]

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am really so envious of all of the lovely FAO pics from the NYFAP thread, I think a visit to NY may be called for this reason alone.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna the Lego AT-AT!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

so many lego robots, so little time.

― kephm, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Those Lego Electroclash Robots were a fucking ace band, too. It's amazing.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Little known fact: R2D2 was made of Lego:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bryang/legor2d2.jpg

Here is proof that the Lego Electroclash Robots ROOLD (warning - 1.2+ MB download), and you get to see some nice ILxors, too.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god you got us in the film?!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, only for a second. That's actually the greatest film ever.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the boston fao schwartz doesn't have any lego band display :(
i wonder how many boxes of the mindstorms one would need to make a lego robot band.

― kephm, Thursday, 31 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

The new Lego Mindstorms NXT is supposed to be cool.
But Radio Shack near me is also selling the VEX Robotics kit for half price on clearance.
Which to get? I think the VEX is made of metal, like an erector set.

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.pinballnews.com/news/lego.html

― koogs, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

wow. legalize drugs and this is what your citizens start doing!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 4 January 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWd3vgLaA_M

― StanM, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

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