I agree with the Lego Mindstorms and Technic sets. In fact, I bought the first Technic set that came out in the late 70's(the infamous Auto Chassis - AWESOME!) Truthfully, the Technic sets led me into falling in love with engineering. Today, I am a software engineer and yes,the software programming bundle that comes with the the Mindstorms is basic, but many have developed other platforms to make this amazing and wonderful set even more powerful. Java (http://lejos.sourceforge.net/)
and C(NQC)(http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc/) have wonderful APIs to program the programmable block. This article is baloney - another example of British resentment for losing their dominance.
Wake up it's 2001, not 1901!
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I agree with the Lego Mindstorms and Technic sets. In fact, I bought the first Technic set that came out in the late 70's(the infamous Auto Chassis - AWESOME!) Truthfully, the Technic sets led me into falling in love with engineering. Today, I am a software engineer and yes,the software programming bundle that comes with the the Mindstorms is basic, but many have developed other platforms to make this amazing and wonderful set even more powerful. Java (http://lejos.sourceforge.net/) and C(NQC)(http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc/) have wonderful APIs to program the programmable block. This article is baloney - another example of British resentment for losing their dominance. Wake up it's 2001, not 1901!