Since the introduction of the NXT and until the launch of the EV3 a lot of alternatives have appeared in the market place. Things like Arduino, Rasberry Pi, Phidgets, an old laptop are now competing with the use of Lego as the backbone of your automisation. I have played with all of the above but I am still holding on to Lego for now. The killer feature being the ease and flexibility of building the hardware and hooking it easily up to the CPU.
I don't have the EV3 (yet) but I would be interested in using the unit in this "real use" type way that I am doing. By real use I mean building robots and systems that need to work, reliably every day. This is as far as I am concerned a major difference (and the fun difference) between this and creating robots for "playing with".
Seeing the specs on the EV3 I think these things will be really suitable for the "real use everyday robot":
I don't have the EV3 (yet) but I would be interested in using the unit in this "real use" type way that I am doing. By real use I mean building robots and systems that need to work, reliably every day. This is as far as I am concerned a major difference (and the fun difference) between this and creating robots for "playing with".
Seeing the specs on the EV3 I think these things will be really suitable for the "real use everyday robot":
- programmable on the device. This is awesome and it is a major hassle to have to include a PC to adjust simple parameters like light sensor control etc. I think I will be able to program all I need for the chicken coop on the device. Awesome.
- wifi connectivity. Totally applicable to the chicken coop use. I am imagining this will enable me to monitor the system remote which is a really important feature.
- great to get the IR remote control back. This is really useful for testing motors and other simple functions without having to interact on the device.
- one more motor port. The more ports the better.
- new type sensors.
Things I will look forward to exploring: how long are the longest cables. In the RCX world the cables could be really long: this is great for making automatic systems. In NXT the cables are quite an limiting factor. I assume it will be the same in EV3 but I am curious to how limiting it may or may not be. In my NXT system I have managed to merge the good from the old RCX (motors and long cables) and still use the power of NXT. I hope to be able to do this on EV3 as well.
More to come if I will be able to play with the EV3 one day...
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