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What’s the best Mindstorms set to get? Is the latest “Robot Inventor” the best or is that only for robots. For example the modern set doesn’t seem to have shaft

• crooked-v 6y ago
  Robot Inventor's hubs, motors, and sensors are all-around better in a bunch of ways (and the hub is half the size, which makes a lot of builds easier), but you can't put Linux on it. Robot Inventor does have a Python interpreter mode (currently in beta) and not just the visual programming blocks of the older EV3, though, which does reduce the need to have Linux in the first place to do fancy stuff. There's also the Powered UP sets, which are much cheaper all round, but have lower-quality parts and more limited programmability (and you have to go through a mobile app rather than being able to work off a computer). The motors and sensors are interconnectable with Robot Inventor, though, and it looks like they'll be releasing 'dumb' battery boxes with Powered UP so that trains, motor/lighting parts in buildings, etc, can all run off the same component ecosystem.
• Teknoman117 6y ago
  Assuming it's anything like its predecessors, everything since the NXT has shaft encoders built into the motors, which was nice considering you had to eat two of your three sensor inputs on RCX robots if you wanted to drive in a straight line...