New Lego smart-play system
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New Lego smart-play system
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#2All of their replacements for Mindstorms just come across as pieces that should have been added to the line. It's really disappointing that the discontinued it with no real replacement.
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#3This reads like an unbranded version of Lego Mario. Which is absolutely fine by me.
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#4Programmable logic toys like this formed the way I see the world — a system of states, conditional flow between states and the chance to design, understand and debug the system.
I had Lego Mindstorms and Gen X had Logo/Turtle.
With AI perhaps programmable logic will go the way of toy steam engines and crystal radios, and with it the worldview of those who grew up seeing the world as logic flows
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#5I like this and can't wait to see what loopy things people will come up with.
Of all the ways "smart" could have been injected in to Lego these days, this is as robust as it gets.
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#6I don't have kids, but if I did, I would probably not go for Lego but for 3D-Printing.
It shouldn't be hard to print pieces that can snap together. In all kinds of colors and all kinds of forms.
I imagine the adventure of printing new pieces would be a fun thing for the kids and the parents. And when the kids are old enough, they can print pieces on their own. And a bit later design pieces on their own.
Would there be any downside to this approach?
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#7I'm very confused by this one. I can't tell what it really does. With Mindstorms, We Do, and Spark, you can build things that interact because you have motors, sensors, remotes, a programmable hub. This... makes noise and flashes lights?
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#8I wonder how it responds to being chewed.
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#9I don't have kids, but if I did, I would probably not go for Lego but for 3D-Printing. It shouldn't be hard to print pieces that can snap together. In all kinds of colors and all kinds of forms. I imagine the adventure of printing new pieces would be a fun thing for the kids and the parents. And when the kids are old enough, they can print pieces on their own. And a bit later design pieces on their own. Would there b…
> It shouldn't be hard to print pieces that can snap together
I have some news for you. Lego piece tolerance is nuts. I think it is down to 2 micrometers. You can't achieve that in consumer 3d printers.
Now, you can make something that kinda works like lego but it wont have the structural integrity for advanced builds.
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#10It looks like this works without a phone now I'm reading more into it, when I saw the announcement on social media I assumed it would just be a brick that can signal to or be tracked by a phone which is far less interesting.
Good to see a move away from trying to bring a tablet/phone into this kind of play.