Can you program your own links? Hello - This is a great idea, but can you program any of your favorite non character sites? For example my daughter loves starfall.com which is a great learning site and it would be great if I could have that as an option. Can you program your own links? Hello - This is a great idea, but can you program any of your favorite non character sites? For example my daughter loves starfall.com which is a great learning site... » Read More Can you program your own links? Hello - This is a great idea, but can you program any of your favorite non character sites? For example my daughter loves starfall.com which is a great learning site and it would be great if I could have that as an option. « Show Less
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I just checked the Fisher-Price website and checked the instruction manual...you cannot program in any non-character sites. I imagine even if you know something about programming it would be difficult as the link is between the console and the character key. The link is probably embedded in the character key. Thanks for your post, I just assumed that you could program favorite web sites and knowing that you can't I won't be buying it.
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I was wondering the same thing. My son loves the playhouse disney website and there is no key for that site. I saw that there is software that must be installed in order for the launchpad to work so you must be able to edit a file and change the key to point to a different site. I imagine it is not a nice GUI or anything like that but if you know anything about computers and programs you should be able to modify it to your needs fairly easily.
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They now have come up with a Disney version of this that has Mickey, Pooh and JoJo's Circus and is supposed to eventually have more keys to include Playhouse Disney, Little Einsteins, etc. Hope this helps. I have seen the Disney pad in stores but not the extra keys yet.
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You could make custom robots with the kit. We did not but if you have other Legos I believe, from my experience with Mindstorms, you could make anything you wanted.
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According to my brother you can use it but there are some functions you need to program but the problem is some of the instructions are written in chinese and if you go the website the same thing it's written in chinese.Hope my answer helped you in anyway.
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This is the perfect place. I highly recommend reading through the guide and also online for example code. It's a lot of fun when it starts working!
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wow, 10-- kids are so computer savvy... my 16-year old is doing pretty advanced 3D animation, so I think that it's possible for a 10year old to learn this if he has patience and the attention span. Someone may have to help him here and there, but you know best if he's a kid that can learn things on his own. I do find that you can Google almost any question and someone somewhere has an answer, so that's helpful. Also, we love Lynda.com, which has tutorials for almost any software for unlimited learning at $35. a month. I don't remember if they have this software but you can go on their site and see. At the very least, if he finds it too hard, he can put it away for a year or two and try it again later-- but if he does well at this at age 10 he's doing great and has a future in this area if he wants it. I do have a background in design and know Adobe suite, so I find this fairly simple to learn but it is time consuming. Hope this is helpful. I will say that it is well worth the price.
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I really don't know, but there's some universal controllers that you can get and program yourself.
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Yes, in games like Skyrim and oblivion I have the side buttons mapped to different functions. I haven't figured out if you can program the buttons outside of game play. By default they are mapped to go back and forward on web pages.
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If I recall correctly the answer is yes you can choose your own code; however, the personalized code you choose has to be 6 digits.
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the code is supposed to be interactive on line, where kids can feed and care for their webkinz. we did not use the code where our granddaughter had more fun playing with her webkinz kitty. Thanks
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Yes. I think you can create whatever your imagination comes up with. If you go to the Lego Mindstorms website (http://www.us.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/community) , you can see that many of the creations were from everyday people. You can also download many other robot instructions (http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/downloads/software/ddsoftwaredownload/). Have FUN !!!
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This will not work .with the PC. There is a liink that is no longer available. There is no other characters available .Even if it worked! I sent this back to the company because you couldn't get a link for my granddaughter to play
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You can use the learning function to program for anything. If you need assistance, inquire further. It's a little tedious, but worth the effort.
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Hi, yes. and that would depend on the code it gives you...personally I still havent try it...so good luck!
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I haven't seen these in action in a long time (i bought it as a gift), but if I recall correctly you cannot program it to fade custom colors. You can fade one color or you can have it fade thru them all in the same order every time. If you are electronically minded you could capture the IR signals used for the colors you want and with a trip to radio shack you could build a IR blaster set to cycle thru the color and fade signals how you want to get the effect you want. Its probably not worth the trouble though of course I could be wrong about programming colors. I haven't seen these in action since Christmas 2012 so I could be remembering wrong. I haven't seen these in action in a long time (i bought it as a gift), but if I recall correctly you cannot program it to fade custom colors. You can fade one color or you can have it fade thru them all in the same order every time. If you are electronically minded you could capture the IR signals used for the colors you want and with a trip to radio shack you could build a IR blaster set to cycle thru the color and fade signals how you want to get the effect you want. Its probably not worth the trouble though of course I could be wrong about programming colors. I haven't seen... » Read More I haven't seen these in action in a long time (i bought it as a gift), but if I recall correctly you cannot program it to fade custom colors. You can fade one color or you can have it fade thru them all in the same order every time. If you are electronically minded you could capture the IR signals used for the colors you want and with a trip to radio shack you could build a IR blaster set to cycle thru the color and fade signals how you want to get the effect you want. Its probably not worth the trouble though of course I could be wrong about programming colors. I haven't seen these in action since Christmas 2012 so I could be remembering wrong. « Show Less
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I used the software to program alpha tags. What I'm sad about is that I haven't figured out a way to choose between the alpha tags or the frequency for presets. Either I always show the alphas, or I always show the frequency. I want to be able to do it on the fly, easily, but I haven't figured out how to display the preset's frequency when my view is preset name.
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You can program one event for all 7 days. On that event, I believe if you hold the Program button and hit the Day button, you can adjust how many days for that event. By default, it is set for all days. You can leave the remaining 6 events default off if you have no other events.
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It works with any software that uses a keyboard! :) I actually don't use mine for gaming at all, I have a tablet PC and use my N52 to run keyboard shortcuts since I can't access the regular keyboard in tablet mode. It works great, any keystroke or combination of keystrokes can be mapped to any button. This even includes typed sequences, like if you wanted a single keystroke that would fill in your name or address or something like that. The only difficulty is memorizing all the layouts you'll set up! LOLI'm currently using it with photoshop, painter and manga studio 3 and find it so useful that I'm using it even when I'm not in tablet mode! :) It works with any software that uses a keyboard! :) I actually don't use mine for gaming at all, I have a tablet PC and use my N52 to run keyboard shortcuts since I can't access the regular keyboard in tablet mode. It works great, any keystroke or combination of keystrokes can be mapped to any button. This even includes typed sequences, like if you wanted a single keystroke that would fill in your name or address or something like that. The only difficulty is memorizing all the layouts you'll set up! LOLI'm currently using it with photoshop, painter and manga studio 3 and find... » Read More It works with any software that uses a keyboard! :) I actually don't use mine for gaming at all, I have a tablet PC and use my N52 to run keyboard shortcuts since I can't access the regular keyboard in tablet mode. It works great, any keystroke or combination of keystrokes can be mapped to any button. This even includes typed sequences, like if you wanted a single keystroke that would fill in your name or address or something like that. The only difficulty is memorizing all the layouts you'll set up! LOLI'm currently using it with photoshop, painter and manga studio 3 and find it so useful that I'm using it even when I'm not in tablet mode! :) « Show Less