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Re: My daughter is very interested in robotics and I have a question

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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux
Ah yes that's right. I'm so used to having the 3 motors to work with. What I meant to say is that the Lego Mindstorms RCX supports three motors, but you only get two in the starter kit. Still this is good because it make things more simple and that's not bad when starting with the mindstorms kit.
Only supports three motors--yes, in theory. The facts: 1) that third port could be connected to a light; 2) you can hook up more than one motor to a port, just be prepared to have both run the same.

I'll have to wait for a third motor to be included in the normal Mindstorms kit. Ouch.

Also, there are numerous books about stuff to do with Mindstorms; I have one on robotic sumo wrestling....
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