Introduction

Have you ever looked at some new toy and thought: “I wish this had been around when I was a kid?”  LEGO MINDSTORMS are that to me, and much more. As someone who has been playing with LEGO since the first grade, I would have gladly made programmable LEGO blocks my new favorite toy if they had come out in the early 1980s.

In case you haven’t figured it out, I am one of those guys that never really stopped playing with LEGO. I realize that there are a lot like me out there, but hopefully you understand that I don’t greet someone I have never met before with this fact about myself right away. If you think that adults that play with LEGO are people who need to grow up, then you should take a look at what they can create.

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