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Very good! :-) Thanks.

"Great stuff there..." Indeed, I remember it well, but with mixed emotions ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Hello Jim,

So you didn't like being tortured with Maxwell's equations either?

Regards, Joerg

Hello Mike,

Look at the first picture. Do they really get to play with Lego these days?

Indeed.

Regards, Joerg

Only EE courses I got B's in.

Mostly it was the work load... to bed at 2AM, up at 6AM ;-(

...Jim Thompson

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Hello Jim,

Yes, they told us that we won't necessarily learn exactly what we need. But that we'd learn how to learn and most of all that it would make us tough.

Somehow that reminded me of what our drill sergeant told us. Or rather, yelled at us.

Regards, Joerg

That's really it, "learn how to learn".

I guess, at my advanced age, I can now admit that for most of the projects I've ever taken on, I didn't have a clue. By the time I was done, I was the expert ;-)

I never had to endure that. I was 2S while at MIT, and deferred indefinitely by security-related work when I joined Motorola.

I hold the record at Motorola for obtaining a security clearance faster than anyone else. Both my father and father-in-law held "Q" clearance when they were in WWII, and the FBI agent-in-charge of the Phoenix office in 1962 turned out to be the father of a kid I went to high school with in Huntington, WV, from 1955-1958.

...Jim Thompson

It sure is!!!!! Thanks.

Ted

Yes they do, and so do kids at a lot of other schools! They're popular for building robots, which is presently a popular way to get undergraduates interested in electronics (or at least that's the hypothesis...). If you have a good bookstore nearby, you might want to check out O'Reily's magazine, "Make". The current issue (volume 2 -- it's quarterly and new) has an article about using legos for prototyping... It also has an article about people who spend their time building replicas of R2D2!

Oregon State University (the place I'm occasionally forced to admit I've been associated with, but usually only after a couple of beers) has an undergraduate robot program known as TekBots (guess who sponsored it?). They don't (typically) use legos, though!

---Joel

Hello Joel,

I just find that Legos are quite expensive. Mostly I use wood. It's a wonderful material.

Regards, Joerg