Talk:Lego Mindstorms

Where is information about the RCX?

There is nothing about the RCX. Shouldn't something be added? -- TimRI 22:22, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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

New Message: I was IN Legoland CA on JULY 4 2006, and They were selling NXT. Also, I visited LegoLand on JUNE 28 and they had signs up that they would sell NXT on July 1. --68.115.107.1 19:16, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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)

I second this. --The Editor1111 12:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I, too, agree on this. --Wernher 22:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. It is still a Lego Mindstorms product. The Editor 2 14:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree that it is still Mindstorms, but its a whole new generation of it.

What if there is a page for Mindstorms(old) and one for Mindstorms NXT? -- --KennethSchnautz07 22:25, 13 November 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.

The supplied LEGO light sensor with the NXT uses an IR phototransistor and a red LED, as did the old one. What has changed is that you can toggle the LED on or off and still get valid readings from the phototransistor (unlike the old one). So you have the possibility of getting a reflectance reading under read LED illumination, and ambient reading as well. There's more color information in there, but it needs to be teased out, and it's still somewhat limited. -- Brian Davis

Wrong names

As the site looks now, it gives the impression that LEGO Mindstorms is two releases: One called RCX and one called NXT. That is wrong. LEGO Mindstorms is several different products, for exaple:

• Robotics invention system (contains RCX)
• NXT
• Spybotics
• Robotics Discovey set (contains Scout)
• Droid's developer kit (contains MicroScout)
• Vision Command (extension to RIS and others)

and so on...

The original Mindstorms RCX was released in 1998. No, The original Mindstorms RIS was released in 1998. The RCX has had very few and minor changes through the years, but the RIS set (primerly the software) has changed a lot.

We should write about each system under each product name as in the swedish Mindstorms page. 213.65.243.16 18:18, 18 July 2006 (UTC)(wikiolle in swedish wp)

Bluetooth version

Does anyone know the version of Bluetooth supported by NXT? I've been unable to discover this online so far. I would like to know, as it'll guide my decision when purchasing a USB Bluetooth dongle for my PC. --Drewnoakes 10:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Added the missing Pbricks

Cybermaster, Codepilot, Micro Scout and Spybotics aren't Mindstorms exactly, but they are a vital part of the history (and reality).

They should have their own entries but I'm not qualified to write them. So it's better to have 'em here, than nowhere at all. Hdw 00:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Disturbing Exclusion

I am disturbed that although the main product was the RIS series, and they are mentioned, there is no section for them. RIS was around for 8 years before NXT, and it doesn't have it's own section? That just seems wrong to me. The Editor 2 14:39, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I guess nobody cares.... I'll have to do it. When I have time, that is. The Editor 2 22:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

RCX Brick

Why does the NXT Brick have an article, and yet the RCX 1.0 and 2.0 do not? Shouldn't there be documentation of the RCX and how it has changed (1.0 to 2.0)?

Disadvantages...??

The article doesn't mention any disadvantages of the Lego Mindstorm compared to other robot platforms. It is simply an advertisemnet for this product...Jidan 16:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)