<p>Any of you guys play with the lego mindstorms? Did you, as engineers, enjoy doing this? I mean I am 18 years old and I'm really tempted to burn 200 USD on this so let me know if I'm making a mistake or if this is worth my time.
PS: I'm a biomedical engineer, but I'm thinking about a concentration in something mechanical/eletrical related under BME. Thanks.</p>
<p>Mindstorms are the robotics stuff right? I just checked those out and they seem really cool, and downloading programs to the robot toy is something new too (for me anyway). I wish I had something like this to play with when I was little...</p>
<p>If I had the cash, I'd probably buy one IF they can do a lot of stuff instead of just moving around like mindless zombies.</p>
<p>It will probably get boring quickly though.</p>
<p>I know some of the robotics programs at NASA Goddard use mindstorms as cheap platforms for testing out code. A few interns I knew wrote code to have an autonomous fleet of robots that would search a maze for an object. They're useful since the communications and mechanical aspect is already taken care of; all you need to woryr about would be the task you want to accomplish.</p>
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I know some of the robotics programs at NASA Goddard use mindstorms as cheap platforms for testing out code. A few interns I knew wrote code to have an autonomous fleet of robots that would search a maze for an object.
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That's really cool! The fun part that never gets old would be the coding part :D</p>
<p>So fellow engineers is it yay or nay?</p>
<p>If you're rich, yay; if you're poor nay.</p>
<p>We've done some freshman projects with these kits. They are a fun way to teach programming logic and get them designing something.</p>
<p>very yay, especially if you can afford a fleet ;)</p>