What sparked your inner hacker?

Re:What sparked your inner hacker? by tlrobinson on Saturday October 06, 2007 @06:19PM (#64229)

Legos.

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Re:What sparked your inner hacker? by chmike on Sunday October 07, 2007 @04:09AM (#64375)

Funny! Me too. Build what I want with limited types of tiles. Assembly was the most fun and the closest to playing lego. I built a 2x1.5m city in legos.

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Re:What sparked your inner hacker? by rms on Monday October 08, 2007 @05:38AM (#64716)

Having done relatively well in a robotics competition that used Lego Technic, I got really annoyed using Legos to build something mechanically complex because of what I dubbed the "Lego Design Flaw." Legos have a 5:4 ratio of width to height (or height to width?) which makes it much more difficult than it should be to build in the full 3 dimensions.

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Re:What sparked your inner hacker? by asmosoinio on Monday October 08, 2007 @05:30AM (#64714)

I have had a long history with LEGO as well. And from LEGO I went on to C64, and programming in BASIC.

Thus I really enjoyed my summertime assistant job building this at our University:

http://web.abo.fi/fak/tkf/rt/robot/

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Re:What sparked your inner hacker? by simpleenigma on Saturday October 06, 2007 @08:45PM (#64289)

The ultimate analog hackers tool ...

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Re:What sparked your inner hacker? by jamongkad on Sunday October 07, 2007 @08:05AM (#64421)

I voted you up because of this. Ditto on Legos!

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