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I think we cannot over-estimate the importance of this.

Lego got many of us into the mindset putting stuff together until it matched our imagination. It's great the bring this onto a new level for the future generations. (And myself… as soon as I have ordered it ;) )

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google "thymio". IEEE's Spectrum had a nice write up on it. My son has one now.

I looked it up, here is the link https://aseba.wikidot.com/en:thymiophilosophy

This robot seems to be the right price as well €100 with shipping. At this price and with the amount of sensors, lights and switches built in they must be building them at cost. I'm trying to do something similar with sparkfun and dfrobot and its just killing me that 2 sensors alone cost a plumb.

This is awesome!

Well, I never could get it to realize my imagination. However in retrospect that could have been a good thing- I spent countless hours trying to render my imagination in plastic blocks, and it required quite a lot of creative thinking.

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