For those of you who also like to set aside a few hours every weekend to
play with toys attached to your computer (as opposed to work :P ), I
followed a clickthrough ad today that led to something fun, and certainly
worth sharing.
LEGO is beta testing a new set of LEGO robotic toys that come with a
small, programmable (in much the same way a PalmPilot is programmable)
CPU. You program on your computer, load the CPU, and build yourself the
various robots. It's supposed to be able to create anything from sensory
alarms to "intelligent" robots that can navigate based on your decision
trees.
In any event, this looks just like the kind of thing people who play with
PERL and HTML all day would play with to release some frustrations. They're
taking names for a beta
program right now (starts 8/1), through which you can get a free set with
software for your efforts. Thought I'd pass the URL along for the
benefit of others who might want to play:
http://www.legomindstorm.com/betatest
They also have a cool, though very awkward due to frames implementation,
site look. While you're there, the inventions page is worth a look
(check out the ATM Candy Dispenser, which shows some pretty impressive
power for a toy system--though I didn't see a demo for the most obvious
use for such a thing . . . finding the darn TV remote :P). I'd love to
see the average age of the people signing up for beta *chuckle*
Anyway, enjoy.
Brett
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