
Like many other programmers, I credit my early years of playing with LEGO as a
major factor in my future career path.As my family and I watched the United States
launching the Apollo 11 rocket, I was playing with a LEGO truck—it was my
birthday and I was 7 years old.What I could not know at the time was that 30 years
later I would hold in the palm of my hand a microcontroller with more raw speed
and memory than the one the astronauts used to get to the moon and back.That
computer would be encased in yellow ABS plastic and would change the world of
hobby and educational robotics.
The story of my involvement with the LEGO MINDSTORMS is a familiar one ...