Tacker Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Hi hope this don’t seem a silly thing to ask. I’ve got loads of Lego Technics kits ect. Was thinking of asking wife to get me a Mindstorms kit for me birthday. I dont know anything really about it just wonder if i can run Lego Technics motors ect from the Mindstorms controller Many Thanks Quote
ciken Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 this is what you need 8528 Converter Cables 8886 Extension Wire (20 cm) Quote
DLuders Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 (edited) The currently-offered Lego Mindstorms set is the 8547 NXT 2.0 set (shown on the right); the older NXT RCX set is shown on the left. As ciken said, for either Mindstorms set the NXT Mindstorms set one needs the 8528 Converter Cable AND the 8886 Power Functions Extension Wire (shown below) to operate Power Functions motors via the NXT intelligent brick. To learn about what you can do with each intelligent brick, visit these two Brickset webpages to read the reviews: 3804 RIS 2.0 and 8547 NXT 2.0 . Edited March 5, 2012 by DLuders Quote
Porty Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 The currently-offered Lego Mindstorms set is the 8547 NXT 2.0 set (shown on the right); the older NXT set is shown on the left. As ciken said, for either Mindstorms set one needs the 8528 Converter Cable AND the 8886 Power Functions Extension Wire (shown below) to operate Power Functions motors via the NXT intelligent brick. To learn about what you can do with each intelligent brick, visit these two Brickset webpages to read the reviews: 3804 RIS 2.0 and 8547 NXT 2.0 . 3804 is not an NXT but an RCX, so if you got that I believe you would need 5306bc017 and 8886 (shown below): I think you mean the 8527 NXT 1.0 shown here: Quote
Tacker Posted March 5, 2012 Author Posted March 5, 2012 Many Thanks. Hopeing to build a tracked type moon buggy thing (still thinking) Quote
Tacker Posted March 12, 2012 Author Posted March 12, 2012 Seems Lego dont do the 8528 cable any more Quote
DLuders Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 @ Tacker: You can get one via Bricklink.com . Visit this Help page to see how that site works! Quote
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