What's old is new again - 2006 RN-1 kit need upgrading?

[trashmanf]

Hi,

I have been into R/C cars, planes and helis for several years and was looking to get into robotics. I bought a lego mindstorms kit which was very fun, but limited to three servos (and the servos don't have positional "homes")

So I just recived an RN-1 in the mail, my first "real" robotics kit, and am excited to get building thanks to the help on this forum's build page.

My question is - I noticed when I got the package that the sticker showed it had been on the shelf since March of 2006 or basically three years. It's got the IR remote in the kit and a CD with instructions.

I was just wondering if I should ask the members here first (rather than find out with a frustrating problem) if there are any known issues with the older RN-1s? Thank you,

Fletcher

[engineer]

read this forum or you will get all of the problem's asociated withthis bot.such as miscalled output ports ,the flashing blue diode,the remcon that wont. just read read read. the build blog is reallya life saver.on the articles button on the left will help a lot or pm us sooner or later .....