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LEGO has - for decades - has had a standard, very basic and awesome system of delivering electricity from a ‘power brick’ that contains standard AA or 9V batter
by lostgame 4y ago
LEGO has - for decades - has had a standard, very basic and awesome system of delivering electricity from a ‘power brick’ that contains standard AA or 9V batteries.
It’s very cool, they’ve got little metal clips under these special conductive bricks.
If you’ve ever played with MindStorms, you’ll know how bloody cool it is.
So you don’t have to worry about ‘Lego(c)(r) Mini Batteries’ - if you’d read the article; you’d see, that brilliantly - this is actually already the way the pieces are powered!
They have no batteries in them.
If you can’t see the value of working displays in especially a collector’s (adult) edition of, say, the X-Wing with that Death Star trench thing, then it’s not a product for you - but I assure you there are thousands of us who will happily say ‘shut up and take my money’ for such a thing.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoAnd they could probably upgrade the system to transmit both power and a modulated signal to let the bricks communicate.
- remram 4y agoQuoting from the article: > He tells The Verge he probably won't sell them — at least not without legal consultation and a small enough battery! I know the 9V batteries exist but this is not the author's goal.