[unofficial weekender] T-2

[limburger 22680xp 0]

too bad that my parents decided to do so …
I’m not sure how much LEGO I ever had.
Definitely had some LEGO Technic bits. And I think I had one of those early battery operated trains.
Not sure what happened to all of that stuff, but I guess it’s either in a landfill or some other untraceable location.

It sucks when you know that it could have been fun to have.

[zoidpinhead 13095xp 1]

When I first started teaching I used Lego RCX 1.0 programmable bricks with my 16+ ICT (Information and Communication Technology) learners.  I designed a course they had to get a robot to navigate.  We set it up as a long track with all of the tables in the room placed together and the robot had to get from one end to the other without human assistance.  Along the track they had to do things like negotiate a maze by using their touch sensors, follow a black line across the white tabletops from one end to the other using the light sensor, and collect a Subbuteo football and “dribble” past two defenders to score a goal.  The lads thought it was great fun and they learned to design and program a robot in the bargain.

Pity the clankers took over doing that stuff.  IT can be good fun.

[sundancer 45008xp 1]

The LEGo robot stuff was great but horribly expensive even in LEGO standard. Never had the chance to dabble in them :S

[limburger 22680xp 1]

LEGO itself has never been ‘cheap’ … and looking at the cost of the average set I’m not sure if it was meant for the kind of little kids we were.

[grantinvanman 10545xp 1]

It was always a Christmas/birthday type thing in my house. And competed with Kenner Star Wars.

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