I grew up playing with Legos alot, it’s a great toy. I sometimes still get some urge to build some cool stuff with Lego but I didn’t have any left, until yesterday. I decided to get Lego Mindstorms, which is a robot lego kit where you can combine the easy fun of Legos and the more complex satisfaction of robotics and programming. The Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 comes with 1 control unit, 3 servo motors, 2 touch sensors, 1 light/color sensor and 1 ultrasonic sensor, and ofcourse alot of Lego bits to put the together. My first robot is an exploring robot, it will go about the room and turn if something gets too close or if it bumps into something. Watching alot of robot- and sci-fi movies I have learned that all robots must have an amok subroutine (often indicated by a red light being lit), so so does mine. It will run amok at random intervals and start to blink and shout “error… error… error…”. If everything is OK it will just drive around, sometimes laughing and apologizing when it bumps something. It’s pretty fun to build, program and test it, it takes some patience though, but it is not difficult. But you really should have an interest in robotics and talent of Lego building, because it’s a pretty expensive toy. Good fun though and a nice time killer on rainy day of your vacation perhaps.
