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How old are you?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:37:13 GMT
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Mark Geddes <mark@AudeSi.com>
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I was just wondering how old most of the members in this forum are?
I suspect most people active in Robotics as a hobby aren't children.
I'm just about to turn 36, but I was dreaming about Lego Robots since I was
8.
MG
> kids; in fact, I think there're more adults in this target group than
> kids. Just another of the signs we've seen recently of Lego going more
> for the adults?
>
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| (...) Well, since you ask, 52. I'd never used LEGO before getting a Mindstorms kit, although I'd dabbled slightly in robotics before using the Erector/Meccano system. I got this after realizing that there was a strong web community and thus wide- (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Mark Geddes writes: > I was just wondering how old most of the members in this forum are? > > I suspect most people active in Robotics as a hobby aren't children. > > I'm just about to turn 36, but I was dreaming about Lego Robots since I was > 8. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi. I'm 49 have over 15 years of industrial experience in embedded systems and am currently an assistant professor of computer science. I have been trying to talk a school into funding a LEGO based robotics course since at least 1995 when I wrote (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) At 08:37 22-12-1999 -0700, you wrote: (...) I'm 31. Had LEGO Basic System sets since I was 5 years old until I was 12-14. Only recently (3 years) had contact with the LEGO Technic through my son. He's 9 years old, now. Then, this year, I (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I am 29 and my first Lego set was givin to me by my friend when I was 10. Havent played with Lego since. I just recently bought the MIS and the Space Shuttle Set (Zainy Brainy) and the two new books. Havent used it much, but I am planning on (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm currently 37. Bought my first RCX last 13 months ago. Have been collecting and playing with LEGO since I was 8. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm 17. I think I probably started lego before my first birthday. James Pritchard ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Geddes <mark@AudeSi.com> To: 'Lego' <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 3:37 PM Subject: How old are (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I'm 28, but (like many here) I've been playing with LEGO since I was a wee tyke. I distinctly remember Xmas of 1979 when I got the Expert Builder car chassis (ages 12-+), (I was 8) and had to show my bigger brother (he was 26) how to put it (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In response to Mark Geddes informal poll. I'm 43 and I don't own a pinball machine. I didn't do legos as a child. My wife and I got the Mindstorms kit for my 10 year old last Chrism-akkah (as my wife puts it), but dad seems to be more interested. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| MindStorms was the cause of my interest in Lego. I am 62 and getting younger the more I play with Lego. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Geddes" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:2044A9F15B38D21...esi.com... (...) was (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm 34, and while I played with Legos as a child I haven't really been involved in them for the past 20 years or so. The reason I'm getting back into Mindstorms now is that I was about to rebuild a 6.270 board that my cat broke, and decided to go (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm 28, been playing with legos since before I can remember. I started out with classic space, something like the Galaxy explorer and a few others. The first "Technic" set I can remember well was the expert builder car chassis. I guess that would (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I am only 13, but I have a decent knowledge of programming and LEGO mechanics. I have been building them since I was 4 and a half. I guess my age limits me from completing some of my ideas, but I think younger people that have a set at home have (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I am 26. Like a lot of others here I had my dark ages in thge past years - until RIS. I played Lego when I was younger, but now got in touch again with it by Technic and the RCX. I study civil engineering - so there is no real connection to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm 39, happily back to Lego from one year after more than 20 years of dark ages. Many thanks to the RIS :-) Mario Web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) Geddes <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message (...) was (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| "MG" == Mark Geddes <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> writes: MG> I was just wondering how old most of the members in this forum MG> are? I suspect most people active in Robotics as a hobby aren't MG> children. Well, I can't claim to be into robotics, yet (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm 25. I made a graph and stats of the current data: Lego Users Ages 12 10 ## numb ## ## of 08 ## ## people ## ## 06 ## ## ## ## 04 ## ## ## ## ## ## 02 ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## 00---...--- 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 09 19 29 39 49 59 up Ages (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) If you suspect that most people active in Robotics are not children than you are wrong. Lego Mindstorms Robotics is for all ages. Hundreds of thousands of sets are sold around most of the world. I got my first robotics set when I was nine. I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Age = 30. Into Lego from ages 6 until 12, then a long dark void until I got married 5 years ago. Picked up a few Castle sets, then the StarWars sets, but it was the RIS that I got a few months ago that really brought me back. Since then I've aquired (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) ehehe, you can say that again !!! (as for many other things that kids have today...) ___...___ Marco C. aka McViper (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Mark: For your stats, I'm 60 (thought maybe I held age record in the group 'til Bob Fay signed in at 62!). My first-ever LEGO was RIS 1.0 a year ago -- found robotics-ala-LEGO irresistable after 35+ years in electronics engineering. Now own 1 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi. How old is your son? He can probably deal with Robolab Software (PC & MAC) available from Pitsco. Pitsco also sells a Robolab upgrade kit which gives you the Robolab user manual and a nifty green case. (I got case feaver and went out and bought (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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