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- Lego Mindstorms RIS, with over 1 million units sold, is the best selling Lego set ever made http://gizmodo.com/5019797/everything-yo...
- Educational partner: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- GUI developer: Tufts University
- The Lego Mindstorms "brick" is the brains of the set, powered by microcontrollers and RAM
- Lego Mindstorms RIS brick is known as the "RCX"
- Lego Mindstorms NXT brick is called the "NXT"
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LEGO Mindstorms are toys that allow users to construct programmable automatons from LEGO pieces. Lego Mindstorms consists of a variety of sensors, motors, Lego Technic pieces, and a programmable control unit. Lego Mindstorms are both recreational and educational and are used in First Robotics competitions.
Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 was recently released. It features a larger set of 612 elements, a color sensor, and four new robot models.
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LEGO Mindstorms Components
- NXT brick, the programmable control unit
- touch sensor
- sound sensor
- light sensor
- ultrasonic sensor (measure distance)
- 3 servo motors
- variety of Lego Technic pieces
- testpad
- 2 plastic balls (red and blue)
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LEGO History
Lego founder Ole Kirk Christiansen began as a carpenter, but moved into toymaking in 1932. In 1934 he christened his company Lego. They began working with types of interlocking plastic bricks in 1949, but did not hit on the current design until 1958. The product line has since been extended, with action figures, themed sets, electronic and computer programmable elements and tie-ins to media properties.http://cache.lego.com/downloads/aboutus/LEGO_company_profile_UK.pdf -
LEGO Product Lines
- LEGO Duplo: for younger children
- LEGO Creative Building: large collections of bricks to foster creativeness
- LEGO Themed Sets: special buildings, vehicles, and minifigures
- LEGO Technic: mechanical and functional models
- LEGO Mindstorms: programmable robotics with Lego pieces
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LEGO Mindstorms Questions
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How different is Lego Batman for the PSP from the XBox 360 version? 4 Answersnot that different, you're talking a simple difference in graphics quality and gameplay, not an overall plot or character change. read more
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