Computers for children

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
Date: Thu Jan 14 15:59:32 1999

At 09:33 PM 1/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> Obcc: Yes, you can build computers and calculators from Lego. Any reason
>> why you couldn't replicate a Digi-Comp with Lego?
>
>A Digi-Comp built with Lego blocks would be huge and fragile, plus
>those vertical metal rods would have to be fabricated. When I had my

The Mindstorms kit includes some long-ish axle pieces which might work.
There are probably other ways of doing it as well. You're just not being
creative enough. (Check out the web sites I posted previously -- one
includes a lego computer that looks kinda like a digi-comp (in a
uninitiated, unobservant kinda way.)


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