About the Authors

About the Authors

I went to Purdue University, got an engineering degree, and ended up doing industrial research at Rockwell Automation. However, a part of me still yearned for the dream job of cooking up interesting projects and telling people how to do them. Back in 1998, LEGO introduced the MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System. I naively bought a kit for my daughter Audrey, but quickly got swept up in the network of adult hackers trying to unlock the product's real potential. Through a simple personal web page I started publishing how the LEGO sensors worked and how to build new ones. This led to being invited to appear at MIT's MindFest and ...

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