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June 28, 2006
Lego Mindstorms NXT
I have always been a fan of Lego as a great educational tool and the fact that I grew up with it I think gave me some rudimentary engineering skills that probably helped me in my first job that let me play with these.
I had hoped earlier this year to be one of the lucky 100 who scored one of these Lego Mindstorms NXT to test run but alas it did not happen, so I will have to wait until August for the public release, a birthday and maybe some donations towards the AU$429.99 price tag.
With 30,000+ photos of Lego over on Flickr it is still quite a popular pastime for many. Adam Savage from the popular Mythbusters series on SBS said in an interview at The Sneeze about his kids “So I figure, it’s Lego’s until they’re old enough for a cell phone”. I never felt an urge to be a sculptor or excavator operator but what bought this post about today was a set of photos of M.C Escher’s Impossible Staircase over on the FinaBlog built with Lego bricks. I have a jigsaw puzzle of the staircase and that was complex enough for me, building that with Lego bricks must have been mindboggling
Posted by Stephen at June 28, 2006 04:03 PM
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I love that you pay $400+ for the lego but you get 6 AA batteries FOR FREE
OMG, great deal guys ;)
Posted by: Chris at June 30, 2006 11:08 AM