Black brick - any significance?

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mikebittmann
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Black brick - any significance?

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Is the black brick any different than the regular light gray one? :?:
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http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10287_Intelligent_NXT_Brick

Don't know what the extra program does.
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Other than the color :D Absolutely none.
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Interesting fact: the internals of all NXTs are not the same.

I had a white NXT with a bad screen, and a black chess king (has a black NXT, but does not use it), so I decided to swap the covers, and put the bad screen in the black king.

Turns out they are NOT compatible. The daughter-board connected to the screen and buttons (which caused the bad displays) was removed in the black NXT. I assume white NXTs made after that time also don't have the board.

I think the black NXT board has a (c)2007. I haven't really looked at new white ones.

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hassenplug wrote:Interesting fact: the internals of all NXTs are not the same.

I had a white NXT with a bad screen, and a black chess king (has a black NXT, but does not use it), so I decided to swap the covers, and put the bad screen in the black king.

Turns out they are NOT compatible. The daughter-board connected to the screen and buttons (which caused the bad displays) was removed in the black NXT. I assume white NXTs made after that time also don't have the board.

I think the black NXT board has a (c)2007. I haven't really looked at new white ones.

Steve
Oh yeah there is that. They did change the board design therabouts. Functionally identical, but less prone to screen breakage. Once the old one phased out all NXTs used the new one.
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