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That is awesome! :) Asking the questions I did wasn't a judgement on you, by the way. I was hoping that they could judge the best "in" for your son. I honestly
by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
That is awesome! :) Asking the questions I did wasn't a judgement on you, by the way. I was hoping that they could judge the best "in" for your son.
I honestly have no idea about the Mindstorms set. The one my parents bought me is probably 20 years old at this point. I also won a sweet R2D2 one at the mall at the tail end of when I was really playing with them.
Maybe see if there is a set out there that matches one of his favorite fictional characters? Does he tend to favor things with wheels or things that walk when he is playing with toys? (ie would he rather program Wall-E or Iron Man?) Maybe do some basic research and present him with three options? Or maybe start from the "problems" he wants to solve and work with him on building/picking the right robot out. Some questions could be:
- Do you want to walk around the kitchen?
- Would you like to build a track for your car to follow?
- Want to scare your little sibling with a giant scorpion while having plausible deniability? :P
Lego seems to have a huge gallery of bots that people built [here](https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/gallery https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/gallery). They all may be able to be built with the "default" kit, which I found on [Amazon](http://a.co/15WLhTC http://a.co/15WLhTC).