Coincidentally a few days ago a documentary was shown on TV in my country (a HowItsMade) who talked about how Lego pieces were made in factories, as well as mentioning plans he had Lego (company) regarding upcoming projects. The future plans that Lego had caught my attention because, who wouldn't want to have their own robot built with legos? In other words, Lego plans to launch several construction kits with which robots can be built, yes, but it was all there, I could not know anything more about it.
Coincidentally today reading sites on the internet I find the post of pocket-lint.com and with that of GotTabeMobile.com not only confirming this information, but also showing photos of these next Legos toys 😀
Basically, they would be robots that can be built almost entirely by us, whose heart or firmware will be Linux so, as they say on GotTableMobile.com:
The device itself runs on linux firmware which is great for programmers who want to make the device more customizable
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The device runs on Linux firmware, which is great for programmers who want to be able to make the device more customizable or unique.
We can have a toy of these, program functions ... do hacks and teach new tricks to do ...
How cool is this? O_O … Because it seems to me simply phenomenal !!!
This is due to the 15 years of Legos, but it is not only here ...
For example, the Snake mode makes use of the sensor that it has and if it detects movement (for example, our hand a few centimeters from the computer) the robot will try to "bite" us, through this we can control it remotely, etc. This sensor as well as the SD-Card that the device has allows us to configure more, add more options, of course the equipment has a USB device 😉
The price of this wonderful toy will be $ 349.99 in the US in the 2nd half of this year (not that cheap eh? Hehe), but we geeks will be an excellent market 😀
I leave several photos here so that you can appreciate this that I do not know about you, but it has already captivated me and I would love to have one 🙂
The question to all this is ... how will it be to implement new features if you use Linux? … I would love to have one of these in my hands right now hehe.
Anyway, here the post ends and your comments begin 😉
Hmmm, and what distro would they use? Lego GNU / Linux? or maybe just Lego Linux? Hehe, it's interesting. How nice it would be to program a simple function in Bash to make it bring me an XD beer.
I read the title and thinking it was a tutorial I ran quickly through a box of legos (I think I even hurt myself from the speed with which I did it, mentally prepared to make my robot ... But it seems that I have been trolled very well ~
The info is very good!
Greetings ~
HAHAHAJAJAJAJA well, now that I see it ... the title is a bit suggestive 😀
Thanks for the comment ^ - ^
Hahaha the most. Connect it to the TV and make it a mediacenter.
Hahaha, the same thing happened to me as Crisnepita, although the information is very interesting… when I saw the title I was moved by xDDD.
I know that in several public high schools in Uruguay, there are such Lego devices available to students for years, of course they are not as sophisticated as the ones in the post, but they have sensors, display, wheels, and they are aesthetically the same as those. They use them for robotic sumo championships.
Uorales .. I last year in the engineering faculty where I study I programmed a lego nxt v2 with the nxc language .. they are great… and now with linux .. surely it will be better… .. greetings… good info
interesting, although I also get carried away by the title, as I just started wanting to program with the simulation on the lego mindstorm pc, I thought it was a tutorial to improve, even so I would like to have one xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ENKMppzLQg
How I like Legos, before (I never had the mindstorm) when I was much smaller, I used to spend hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrraaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss and putting things together hahaha
I'm getting bored