Edison - fun robotics for tomorrow's inventors!

[Kepheus]

Can you remove wheels?

There's a pic w/o the wheels at the bottom of the Kickstarter page.

But I can see no front wheel or ball? Is it sliding on the light sensor cover or am I missing something?

[BimmerBoy]

Does anyone know the torque and rpm of the motors?

This!

[Nalyd997]

This is interesting, but it seems a bit too easy...

[JopieK]

It has a Freescale Microcontroller (ARM), good choice, affordable and powerful.

[W3ird_N3rd]

Cos from my point of view, and for what I've seen so far, Mindstorm it's more based on "softwares, programming, electronics" applied on simple technic/non technic models, and most of the time for "explorating and learning porpouse", suck as studentish things. Techinic designer/players prefer to have a "ontime" controls of the functions, rather than programming a machine that does it for you. Plus the way of thinking it's completely dfifferent, we have motors, LA actuators, and funcions. So an INPUT, a mechanism and a movement. Pure technic and mechanical, it's there, you can see it. Where programming or telling a software to move your creations sounds like if there is a line between you and the model.

Hopefully makes sense.

I understand that. At some point in the late nineties, shortly before I grew up and had a long break from Lego, I got that green barcode truck. 8479 code pilot thing. I'm sure I've used the parts, but I never really liked the code pilot thing that much. I don't think it was programmable with functions other than the barcodes that were printed, making it next to impossible to incorporate it into a MOC.

This Edision-thing looks pretty cool though. I won't buy it however. I would have to pay €20 tax to customs for importing this into my country.

Edited August 10, 2014 by W3ird_N3rd