Neither mindstorms or vex are very good programming environments. I'd like to see an open linux box with client libraries in a bunch of languages. The controll

Neither mindstorms or vex are very good programming environments. I'd like to see an open linux box with client libraries in a bunch of languages. The controller should be in a browser for any laptop that can connect to wifi or bluetooth, with a web server on the robot. No one should be building GUIs for a particular environment. You could also build a heroku-like environment to write code for the robot from the browser. You could add a graphical layer for kids who could eventually graduate to code. I thought this when I was working on robotics, and even more so having worked on the web for a while. I don't know if this system does this stuff. To my knowledge, no one does yet.