Ah, video games. I used to play a lot of video games. I still do — but I used to, too. I had to stop for a while because I blamed all my irregular tendencies on video games. Little did they know that beating up hobos was just something that I did on my own time, and it didn’t have anything to do with my obsession with Viva Pinata and the Sims.
Lego is just Minecraft for when the power goes out, but you can do some pretty interesting things with it these days. Of course a Lego set costs more than a real industrial robot, but that’s neither here nor there. Build something!
Tomorrow he’s going to build a contrivance that builds a machine that sorts LEGO blocks. On Sunday, he’s going to build an apparatus that builds a gizmo to build a machine to sort LEGO blocks. On Monday …
Robots are cool, period. Now, robots are much cooler when they’re forty storeys high, burping out laser beams and farting nerve gas and desolating the landscape, but you can’t have everything. A LEGO robot is still cool. Even if its preferred medium is floral foam.
OK, I admit a LEGO floral foam robot isn’t bitchin’, but it’s still cool. That’s as far as I’ll go.