[chbot] Meccano Meccanoid

[Charles Manning]

About to hit our shelves.... No. They've been on the shelves for a few
weeks now. I saw a pile of them at GlobalPC when I went there about 2 weeks
ago, and yesterday.

At this stage "programming" seems to just be remote control. See
http://www.meccano.com/meccanoid-programming. Sad if that's what people
think is "programming" in today's world.

As for Open Source Programming. All they say is
Open Source Programming: Communication protocols will be made openly
available on our website"


That sounds a bit like the Lego BT stack that provided a remote API for
controlling their devices. No mention of actually programming the device
itself.

I expect that if you really want to get inside this thing, it will need a
complete reverse engineering exercise like I did with the Lejos project for
Lego NXT.




On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> I asked Spin Master about their open source claims of the Meccanoid the
> other day, this is their vague response;
>
> """
> Unfortunately, the information you are looking for about the Meccanoid
> code are not available yet. The plan is to make it an open source, however,
> there is not a timeline we can provide you with at this time.
>
> Please keep checking the Meccano web site for all the info about the Brand.
> """
>
> On 11/09/15 14:04, Hadley Rich wrote:
>
>> They should come in around $260/$460.
>>
>> The thing I'm interested in is the vague references to "open source".
>> There doesn't seem to be any actual detail about that anywhere so far.
>>
>> On 11/09/15 11:34, hamster wrote:
>>
>>> About to hit the shelves...
>>>
>>> http://www.meccano.com/meccanoid/
>>>
>>> I've seen the RRP as NZ$299 or NZ$499
>>>
>>
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