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I would have better read a real Lego Q&A site than a specific Mindstorms Q&A one. Indeed, as AFOL community grows, there are more and more groups about specific Lego tricks (like SNOTS ones). I believe changing this group from Mindstorms specific to full Lego universe would raise far more interest. – Riduidel Jul 1 '10 at 10:02

@Riduidel: Perhaps. However, the AFOLs in the mainstream area which you speak may have little to no grasp of electronics and computing, which the larger proportion of this proposal is about. Also, I fear that the number of non-robotic lego questions you can ask is limited. Mainstream lego is more about showing off ideas, rather than finding out information. Just my two cents – Eric Jul 7 '10 at 20:11

There are a proposal for general Lego. It might be better to use this with tag mindstorm instead of having a separate site for Mindstorms. – awe Aug 4 '10 at 9:00

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closed as duplicate of LEGO® Answers by Dori Nov 11 '11 at 7:20

This proposal would tend to drain audience from an existing Stack Exchange site.

This proposal is now in the Commitment phase — example questions are locked!

61 Example Questions (7 closed)

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added by mightor Jun 6 '10 at 7:15

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added by Eric Jun 5 '10 at 19:49

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added by Eric Jun 5 '10 at 19:51

	People do ask this question occasionally. Great on-topic example. – muntoo Jun 7 '10 at 3:10
	One of the benefits of StackExchange is that if people try to ask a question that is a duplicate, it warns them before they ask, and shows them possible duplicates. That's one benefit over the forum: few repeated questions. – Eric Jun 8 '10 at 10:49

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added by muntoo Jun 5 '10 at 23:55

Good question. A lot of people have trouble with that. – Eric Jun 6 '10 at 7:02

It might be better to say "how can I get my NXT to turn on - all it does is softly click" A lot of people may not know what SAMBA mode is. – afanofosc Jun 9 '10 at 13:59

Good point. – Eric Jun 9 '10 at 17:52

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added by mightor Jun 6 '10 at 7:05

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added by mightor Jun 8 '10 at 5:48

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added by muntoo Jun 5 '10 at 23:59

I somehow overlooked this question and wrote a similar one "Where can I find more instructions and programs to build robots?". In addition to websites there are many books out there that provide similar material - Xander's question on this is very specific so I'm wondering which would be the best approach: a very general question or several more specific ones. – Jetro de Château Jun 11 '10 at 8:40

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added by afanofosc Jun 9 '10 at 14:08

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added by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jun 5 '10 at 21:41

(pbForth: hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbForth/overview.html - "pbForth is (yet another) incarnation of Forth. It is designed to work with the LEGO Mindstorms RCX brick.") – WikiSpeedia hang-around Jun 5 '10 at 21:42

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added by afanofosc Jun 9 '10 at 13:52

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added by Jetro de Château Jun 17 '10 at 11:10

	tweak the question to "how can I use..." so that the answer is not yes or no :) – bazmarc Jun 18 '10 at 7:13
	Thanks! Edited - I'll do the same for the question on motors – Jetro de Château Jun 18 '10 at 9:05

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added by Eric Jun 5 '10 at 19:56

I don't get it. :) – muntoo Jul 1 '10 at 22:19

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added by jojoguy10 Jun 6 '10 at 14:03

	Great on-topic example. (Except I can't vote anymore. :( ) – muntoo Jun 7 '10 at 3:02
	Is it more on-topic that the other ones you voted for? You can subtract your vote by clicking again. The aim of the votes it to vote for the most on- and off-topic examples – Eric Jun 7 '10 at 9:42
	Yeah, I know (about the un-vote). I'm still deciding. EDIT: OK, I subtracted the I2C one, added to this. – muntoo Jun 8 '10 at 2:11
	The problem is there are many more than 5 great examples of on-topic questions. There are very few examples of great off-topic questions. I have votes left in that category. – afanofosc Jun 9 '10 at 14:23

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added by afanofosc Jun 9 '10 at 13:50

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added by user1882 Jun 12 '10 at 17:52

	Not a good question for this site. – muntoo Jun 19 '10 at 2:49
	@muntoo !! why not? to debug a program you might want to use sounds, or use the display to print values of sensors as they go by,,, i believe debugging should be a topic of discussion as the ultimate goal is to make people better at using the NXT ..no? @user1882, perhaps tweak the question to "...to debug an NXT-G program?" – bazmarc Jun 19 '10 at 13:06
	The question needs to be made more specific; as it stands, it's better suited to SO. – retracile Jul 10 '10 at 12:34
	I don't think it has to go on StackOverflow. After all, we're talking here about debugging a NXT program, and not a generic one. As a consequence, it is suited here. – Riduidel Jul 12 '10 at 7:46

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added by CrazyJugglerDrummer, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 20 '10 at 14:42

	why is this not a good example? – bazmarc Jun 19 '10 at 12:59
	FLL and school teams are an important part of MINDSTORMS - giving information on getting involved in these activities is a great on-topic example! – Jetro de Château Jun 20 '10 at 13:28

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added by Jetro de Château Jun 17 '10 at 11:10

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added by retracile Jul 9 '10 at 20:18

	... which would probably be my first question on the site :) – retracile Jul 9 '10 at 20:31
	Would probably be good to change that to "NXT-G" IDE. After all, any software for the NXT is an NXT IDE. I would vote this on topic, but I've already used my five votes. – Eric Jul 10 '10 at 21:33
	@Eric: updated as suggested – retracile Jul 11 '10 at 0:25
	NXT-G is also available for MAC - still, a good question! – Jetro de Château Jul 27 '10 at 18:07

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added by user10211, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 14 '10 at 13:49

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added by jojoguy10 Jun 6 '10 at 12:33

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added by MW Frost, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Aug 2 '10 at 17:23

	I don't understand the question...NAGE – jojoguy10 Jul 27 '10 at 17:52
	If you are going to vote this question down, do some research on the Web into "Design Patterns"!!! This is a great "on-topic" question. – John Burley Jul 28 '10 at 5:47
	Thanks, John. @jojoguy10: lmgtfy.com/?q=design+patterns – MW Frost Jul 29 '10 at 12:57
	oh, ok...sorry about that...sadly, I'm all out of O-T votes :-( – jojoguy10 Jul 29 '10 at 13:38

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added by Eric Jun 5 '10 at 19:53

	Should the proposal questions really be this generic? There are a lot of "fill in the blank" options for this question that I think would be great off-topic examples and a lot that I think would be great on-topic examples. – afanofosc Jun 9 '10 at 14:25
	Same as John said. I voted "great off-topic example" EDIT: wouldn't "not a good example" go with what he said? – mulhaq_2005 Jun 12 '10 at 5:43
	Could you give examples of which would be on- and off- topic? – Eric Jun 12 '10 at 7:49