New levels of geekery

Scout7

CPT Curmudgeon

posted: 3/15/2007 at 7:41 AM

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/03/two_words_lego_.html This is the coolest thing EVER!!!! Auto-pilot for Legos!!!! If they had this stuff when I was a kid, who knows what sort of trouble I might've gotten in to.

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 3/15/2007 at 7:57 AM

LEGO Mindstorm still only works with PC, right? Just as well. I live with 2 generations of LEGO freaks and don't need to encourage the obsession any more than possible (hubby saved all of his, so now our son has thousands of pieces of LEGO, some almost 30 years old). BTW, within days of Dane starting low-dose Ritalin he could sit for hours doing complex LEGO projects for ages 6-12 following multi-page instructions. It was amazing. Prior to that he wouldn't sit and do anything more difficult than those tiny sets with minimal pieces and very simple one-sheet plans. Smile

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Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

Scout7

CPT Curmudgeon

posted: 3/15/2007 at 8:11 AM

Heh. I don't think I EVER followed any sort of pre-designed anything for my Legos.....

Chenille

posted: 3/15/2007 at 8:12 AM

Quote from Scout7 on 3/15/2007 at 7:41 AM:

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/03/two_words_lego_.html If they had this stuff when I was a kid, who knows what sort of trouble I might've gotten in to.

or kept out of? Wink

K - that's awesome about Dane!

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 3/15/2007 at 10:00 AM

Quote from Scout7 on 3/15/2007 at 8:11 AM:

Heh. I don't think I EVER followed any sort of pre-designed anything for my Legos.....

He follows the instructions to build a set once, then after that he starts coming up with some really crazy contraptions! Like father, like son! Big grin

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Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

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