Voice-Controlled City Vehicles - LEGO City Drive! System
Introducing the LEGO City Drive! System
The LEGO
City theme is fast and exciting. Police cars, fire engines, dump
trucks, and mass transit all bustle around your LEGO City everyday. But
what if you could control them with your voice?
The LEGO Drive! System
lets you build custom City vehicles, controlling their motion just by
calling out directions.
Imagine...
- You shout, “Fire truck, there’s a
fire at the bank!” and the engine leaves the station, following a
color-coded line through your streets and stopping when it reaches the
bank.
- You say, “Dump truck, the construction
site needs a load of gravel!” and a yellow truck barrels through the
streets and arrives with its payload.
How It Works...
The LEGO
Drive! System uses a unique set of lines embedded in the ABS pavement -
either use special painted LEGO City baseplates or switch to “tile mode”
to design your own brick-built streets. When a model reaches a unique
tile or sticker - specially coded for its destination keyword - it knows
to stop.
The system is powered by a special
base station hub containing a powerful microcomputer and 360 degree
microphone array. The base station communicates wirelessly with each
vehicle, sending commands as the user calls them out. A base station can
control up to 20 different vehicle chassis.
Users
choose from a bank of over 50 approved keywords to assign to each of
the vehicle chassis in their collection, then build the vehicle of their
dreams to drive around town. Vehicle chassis come in two sizes.
Light are ideal for cars and small vehicles. Heavy is perfect for trucks
and busses. Each vehicle chassis has a built in rear-wheel drive motor
and front end steering servo.
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