Cyber K'nex

I set out to compare Cyber K'nex and Lego Mindstorms to determine which would be best to support robotics experiments. Although Mindstorms seem to have a strong following along with numerous 3rd party extensions (including Java VMs inside the RCX!) the Cyber K'nex has almost NO support online. This is a shame, since the Cyber K'nex processor element appears to have more advanced capabilities.

In desperation I disassembled one of the control elements of the swarm-bots of my daughter's kit to locate some meager information:

Circuit Board:
  (c) Innovision R&T
  BASE UNIT PCB
  ISSUE J
  PFR
Daughter Board:
Other Daughter Board:
  PFR/GPP/RLU
  SPC41A COB
  6-6-00 ISS1
Daughter Board:
  SPMC02-05-COB
  ISSUE PFR

Some extensive web searched determined that the SPC41A board is a speech processor. The SPMC02 is some kind of 8-bit general purpose controller with additional I/O elements, but the web seems devoid of examples of this controller in common use.

It looks like LEGO Mindstorms are the better solution given the community of support.

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