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Perfect timing, I've just ordered the three big Technics sets from 2016. Technics is brilliant, even if my enjoyment with it is currently limited to following
by radicalbyte 10y ago
Perfect timing, I've just ordered the three big Technics sets from 2016.
Technics is brilliant, even if my enjoyment with it is currently limited to following the instructions. I hope that it'll teach my kids a lot about engineering. The gear boxes in the big sets for example are genius.
- artursapek 10y agoFor xmas I asked my mom to mail me my old Mindstorms sets (original yellow brick version). I want to share them with my 2 year old, who is already into Legos. I absolutely loved those things.
- Yen 10y agoI have a fun memory of the yellow Mindstorms set. Apparently, the visual programming environment was just a thin wrapper on top of C, and people quickly came out with simple IDEs that let you program the brick in C. I tried to program a musical sequence, and was mystified when programs involving simple decimals didn't work. I didn't understand at the time, but the Yellow Brick didn't have any floating-point support! I eventually just faked it with a good-enough approximation of using integers to emulate fixed-point arithmetic.