Lego-built "self tracker" train does things at its own pace

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Stephen Sehr @ Apr 26th 2007 5:31PM

um, anyone else see the wires hanging down to the robot? from those and the fact someone is standing right behind the robot, i dont think it is autonomous. its easy to build a lego robot to do something like that, its MUCH harder to program it to do it by itself.

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Anthony @ Apr 26th 2007 7:16PM

As a lego RCX user I can assure that that wire is only power. These lego robots are miserable battery consumers. They go through batteries like they were made to. So you tend to find your self tethered all the time to save money.

Plus, the only way to communicate with the old RCX units is via infrared which only works within a couple of inches. So I assure you, it is autonomous.

I've been programming these things since they came out and this is definitely easily programmed.

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jeff @ Apr 26th 2007 7:18PM

I love the slippers

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murray @ Apr 26th 2007 7:19PM

"its easy to build a lego robot to do something like that, its MUCH harder to program it to do it by itself."

Actually you have that backwards. Designing and building this sort of thing is by far the hardest part. Programming it to perform this particular operation would be relatively easy.

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