lego

["Mechanic"]

If you have children in school ( i think this is aimed at high school) have a look at this program aimed at school kids, http://www.fllsa.org/ its a world wide challenge involving Lego and their micro controllers, think Robotics... They have an international competition, in 2011 a South African team came 2nd in the world.

 

We have a FLL ( first lego league ) club in my school, I joined and took part in the challenge with some friends.

[The Anteater]

Some topical XKCD

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/minifigs.png

[Tumbleweed]

Lego is thriving over its competitors, and 3D printing may have just crossed a critical threshold. Here’s how they’re related.

 

 

How Lego Mindstorms Influences Construction, Programming, and 3-D Printing

 

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/11/08/lego_mindstorms_3d_printing_and_programming_for_kids.html

[gummibear]

We have a FLL ( first lego league ) club in my school, I joined and took part in the challenge with some friends.

 

Some nice builds there

 

What school are you in?

[Pieter1]

I bought some cool books the other day about Lego's history as a company and all the figurines. Pretty sweet.

[splat]

My boy bought this with all the vouchers he got for his 7th birthday.

It's awesome building it together.

[Ratty]

All my son wants for Xmas is Star Wars Lego.

[gummibear]

My son got this for his 8th birthday.

We had his party this weekend and out of 12 boys 8 bought him Lego sets.

 

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5497/10818470276_75910225df_b.jpg

[splat]

All my son wants for Xmas is Star Wars Lego.

 

Its awesome, but so expensive!

[Christopher Brunsdon]

I hate to admit it but I've been buying my 7yr old son the fake-legos this year. He enjoys the bionic range but being still young, he is not very good at keeping all the pieces.

 

So we started to buy him the cheaper fake ones and do admit that the quality is very good. For half the price of the Marvel lego figures, I was able to buy him 3 fake ones: Iron Man; Captain America; Hulk

 

When he is older and more responsible, I will return to buying real legos.

[gummibear]

Its awesome, but so expensive!

 

What does that set cost in SA?

[splat]

What does that set cost in SA?

 

I think that it was in the region of R900.00

 

(a lot of money for a little guy to spend. I kept thinking of what I could buy for my bike with that money...)

[gummibear]

I think that it was in the region of R900.00

 

(a lot of money for a little guy to spend. I kept thinking of what I could buy for my bike with that money...)

 

It's more or less the same here.

 

My worry was that he would let it fall and the pieces go flying.

I want to get plastic glue and re-build it.

["Mechanic"]

Some nice builds there

 

What school are you in?

 

Alexander Road High School in EC

Was my first time, had to stand in for someonelse who couldnt be there

[gummibear]

That's cool....wish we had fun stuff like this at school.

[Caerus]

A friend who is an architect gets to play with lego all day sometimes, she posted this yesterday.