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by stiray 3y ago
https://www.fischertechnik.de/en https://www.fischertechnik.de/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik
We had those in primary school and I think it was electronically more advanced then Lego was at that time (they have added a CPU unit in 1980). We actually built a caterpillar based vehicle avoiding the obstacles using a photosensor in 8th grade, so this would be 1989/90. At that time Lego was just a toy (or maybe the Lego Technic wasnt available where I was living, I am just looking at wiki and it looks it was introduced in 1977 and they had a motor but no electronic counterparts yet) and I think Fishertechnik was mostly used in schools due to their electronic parts (at least in my country, I dont know for Germany).
- Waterluvian 3y agoI have a brother 7 years older so I was exposed to all kinds of stuff well above my age. I got the Fishertechnik traffic light working on the family Apple IIGS at something like age 8 or 9. Code and all. This was back before things like easily accessible Web or smartphones and I had no consoles. So bashing my head against a huge problem for dozens of hours was surprisingly easy. I miss that kind of context.