Thread: Legoland

Originally Posted by FloorPizza

Have you guys noticed that all those fun toys we played with as kids are now every bit as much fun to play with again as fathers?

Working at a school every day I see high school students playing with what they think is the best new toy. Now they are all playing with rubix cubes. I just had to go out and by one myself.

Originally Posted by ndw76

Working at a school every day I see high school students playing with what they think is the best new toy. Now they are all playing with rubix cubes. I just had to go out and by one myself.

Haven't seen one of those in years.

Gareth

@Bruno.. I have only worked with labiew I think since 2003 Its pretty easy but it can get a mess pretty easily. At the moment I'm back to C++ but I dont program a lot anymore.. I let my collegues do most of the work. I'm pretty good at delegating
But I did some programming the lego stuff with Labview to teach our newbs at Sogeti some thing about programming (and have fun the same time)

I just got a rubics cube at Sinterklaas (5 december its a dutch relative of Santa) I can solve it but I forget the algorithms every now and then so I need to look them up again and again and again..

Bruno.. I think we need a Legoland in the neighbourhood... Belgium is close enough for me.

Maarten

Originally Posted by Galopede

Haven't seen one of those in years.

Gareth

They are all the rage here in Bangkok.

Hey Mark,

YYea, so, what was the deal at Legoland?

If you are a Lego lover and you find yourself in New Haven, take a few minutes to visit Yale Hospital. There is a Lego sculpture of Dr. Babar, six feet tall!: Flickr Photo Download: Lego Doctor Babar, Yale Children's Hospital

For the longest time, I wanted to be a Lego Master Designer. At the time, nothing seemed cooler than to sit down with every Lego piece made and come up with new models and sculptures. Hell, forget "at the time", that still sounds pretty cool. I don't think I have the imagination for it though. Some of these models (I'm looking at you AT-AT) are so stunning I can't believe it! I still want to get a bunch of the creator sets and build a big city. Instead, I just wander the Lego aisle at Wal-Mart and help little kids grab the big sets from the top shelf

How did it go Mark? We need a report. Lego rocks, by the way. I especially like the bits with 6 knobs, although I do not mind the 8-knobbers also. And flat bits. Flat bits were always handy, but never plentiful in my lego box.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

How did it go Mark? We need a report. Lego rocks, by the way. I especially like the bits with 6 knobs, although I do not mind the 8-knobbers also. And flat bits. Flat bits were always handy, but never plentiful in my lego box.

James.

6 knobs? 8 knobbers? flat bits? sounds like a post ready made for gugi or BeBerlin!

Well, my boys team won a trophy for their working models they made! Not exactly robots, that doesn't start until he is 9!
His teams models were of climate and weather tools for determining weather in the past and present! My boy made a model of an ice core driller! I can't wait till he is old enough to do real working robotics stuff as this stuff he is doing now just bores me to tears! I smile and clap dutifully and hope my boredom doesn't show!

Well, its that time of the year again. Tomorrow I head off to Legoland with my oldest to see what he has done for robotics. I will post when I get back tomorrow.