October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 44m
English

Daniele Benedettelli is an Italian robotics engineer known worldwide for his LEGO MINDSTORMS creations, such as the LEGO Rubik Utopia (2007), Cyclops (2011), and LEGONARDO (2013). He prefers to be called Danny, mainly to avoid being mistaken for a girl named Danielle. (He once received an appreciation plaque in Bahrain “for sharing her expertise and knowledge in robotics.”)
In 1992, his creation “Tom the cat” lost early in a LEGO competition held in a toy store in his hometown, but he didn’t give up. He kept playing well until he hit the “dark age of LEGO”—a period in the life of an adult fan of LEGO (AFOL) when real-life interests ...
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