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I'll give some thought to the MinuteBot thing - thanks.

Ended up buying rechargeable pack and transformer (9693/8887) from the Lego store. Ridiculously overpriced ($56/$25), and yet, they were the cheapest source I could find. Oh well...

My assumption was that I would want a rechargeable battery pack so that I wouldn't have to disassemble a robot in order to get to the batteries for replacement or recharging. Is this an incorrect assumption? Thanks...

Hi everyone - I need some clarification. I'm in the U.S., and I'd like to upgrade my Mindstorms 2.0 to use a rechargeable battery setup. 1. Is there a better/cheaper place to buy it than the Lego website (at $55.95)? 2. Do I actually also need to buy their #8887 power transformer ($24.95)? It's unbe...

Thanks, ggrinton.

I guess I should ask this: is there a way to program the NXT computer using C#?

Thanks, Steve. For now (for me), it's all about programming some robots and learning about all that. C sounds fine. I get enough C# programming at my day job to satisfy any needs I might have to just program stuff. FWIW, the most fun I ever had with software development was a project I was on about ...

Copy that, Matt. Again, thanks for the great info. NXC first - will do. Ideally I'd find something that supported C#, but for now C will be just fine, and I have no urge to dive back into pointer silliness anytime soon.

Cheers,
Doug

Fantastic information - I appreciate it - thanks!

BTW, a few minutes ago, I ran across RobotC for NXT. Other than cost, how does it compare to NXC with the BricxCC IDE?

Cheers,
Doug

Perfect - thanks for that clarification.

Thanks, doc-helmut! It does help. And thanks, Matt! I'll look into NXC - I've got a couple of decades of C/C++/C# so that sounds fine. I also ran across the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, which at least sounds interesting, since I like C# these days. But I have no idea as to how well the MS ID...

Hi everyone - I'm getting started with an NXT 2.0 set, and was wondering about something. A number of years back, I bought my wife (who is also a software developer) the Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 2.0, along with the Ultimate Builders Set and Vision Command (three boxes of "stuff"...