Results of small survey with DK announcement
Check out the press release from LEGO regarding the developer kit releases... there's mention of a small survey they conducted which might be interesting to those of us who work with kids...
Check it out here.
Check it out here.
Comments
After reading the Hardware Dev. Kit, it seems what we need is an open-source (software and prints - parts/finished goods available for sale)product to take the available RS-485 and I2C busses and turn them into easy-for-user MUX's - a box with a set of non-lego connectors (hey, which mini- or micro-socket has a nut the same diameter as a brick stud?) to add both complex and simple devices, like a ring-style bumper switch that indicates where the bump occurred, start/stop commands for *simple* Lego and non-Lego motors, etc.
I must admit the construction of either interface and the required coding is beyond me - the construction of the various probes and hookups to power and motor isn't. (just as I can "build" from someone's pieces, repair and modify a standard 80X86 computer, but cannot design the computer...)
--probably a LOT of folks like us waiting....