Talk:Lego Mindstorms

German translation

I have translated this site into German and postet it. --Anonymous

Great; spread the good vibes. :) --Wernher 17:01, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

C example, context

Who wrote the C example? And what is the context? (Meaning, is it Not Quite C? Or in C++ for the SDK?) --Astronouth7303 13:49, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I wrote it or just refined it, but I think it's NQC. Perhaps we should double-check it, so I'll just write a NQC-veteran friend of mine and ask him. As for the context, I'm not quite sure of what you mean? It's kind of explained in the lead-in to the ex., isn't it? Just a simplistic stub to show how one might control a motor. --Wernher 02:35, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Proper title

Hmm, I've been surfing around a little at the official LEGO MINDSTORMS site, and not one place do I see them use anything else than LEGO®MINDSTORMS™ all capitalized. So perhaps we should change the article title accordingly ( w/o the trademarks. of course :) ). We'd redirect from 'Lego Mindstorms' / 'LEGO Mindstorms' anyway. --Wernher 02:42, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Update: Also, regarding my recent rv of an edit changing all "LEGO" words to "Lego", all instances of the word---both in the company name and in product names---are uppercase. Unless a very good point is made of changing to a non-standard usage (i.e., contrary to the company's own), let's keep it the way it is. --Wernher 16:26, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

No; the word Lego is not an acronym, so it doesn't get all caps. It doesn't matter how a company "officially" capitalizes it. We have no obligation to violate our own capitalization conventions simply because they want us to. Many companies "officially" capitalize all their brand names (like for example DORITOS) but we do not need to make our encyclopdia look stupid and not follow standard capitalization conventions for words. See the previous discussion on Talk:LEGO. Nohat 18:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Unless you want The LEGO Group to use legal action to shut this site down, we have an obligation to abide by the legal requirements of the use of their trademarks. LEGO is LEGO in spite of any silly self imposed rules. So, yes, the work LEGO DOES get all caps, go read their legal statments. The title to the page needs to be corrected, LEGO must be capitalized. dwfunk 10 May 2006

This topic has been finished (see Nohat's comments above). The Wikipedia community will decide what will be on their site. If Lego sues, then the community may consider that new development. Until then, it stays as Lego, not LEGO. Thats a wiki! -Reuvenk_[T][C] 16:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

"Creations"

I removed the section with the above title, containing the following text:

"Because of the incredible versatility of the lego line and the RCX brick, the creation possibilities are virtually endless. A few things that have been built with the Mindstorms set include a Rubik"

The idea for the section isn't bad at all---a list of (concisely described, and impressive/instructive (as well as some oddball(?))) creations made of LEGO Mindstorms---but the present contents, as quoted above, must be said to be too incomplete for inclusion. In a more complete form, I'd say the section might be a relevant addition to the article. --Wernher 17:01, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

I suppose that Wernher feels that "ditto" is a valuable footnote

Please explain. --Anonymous

Indeed --- I admit I should've done so when I reverted the footnote change. The "ditto" was put there to refer to the first footnote (nr 1, as of this writing), because the particular implementation of footnotes that I used didn't allow two footnote markers to refer to the same footnote. But thanks to your complaint here, I had another look at WP:FN, and discovered that a new scheme had been made, which rectifies that problem. So, I've now fixed this article accordingly. Thanks! :) --Wernher 03:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Nxt release date

Isn't the release date for Nxt June 30.

Yes, the item shipped on July 1, 2006 from lego.com(.ca)'s online store.--24.235.121.98 20:15, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Well then change something

Lego NXT merged here

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lego NXT. Johnleemk | Talk 06:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC) Lego NXT needs to have its own page. It's a totally different kit with different functionality. JettaMann 16:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Light Sensor

I was looking at Lego's site for the NXT set and I noticed on the page for the new light sensor ( http://mindstorms.lego.com/Overview/Light_Sensor.aspx ) that it appeared to still only be monochromatic, but the article says that it can detect color. Is this correct? Mythmon 17:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

It probablly means that the amount of light it gets is changed into rough colors, like colorblind people can sometimes distinguish between colors.