Magnuz wrote:

... to build robotic contraception.

Sounds, uh, painful I guess.

Gemini000 wrote:

tayyare wrote:

Anyone here has anything to do with LEGO as a hobby? 🤣

Not as a "hobby" myself, but I still have all of my LEGO from childhood which is actually quite a fair amount; fills a number of small containers and a handful of shoeboxes. I don't often take it out but every once in a blue moon I have the urge to make something out of the stuff. :B

I left my LEGO in the EU and gifted it to my nephew.

Sutekh94 wrote:

tayyare wrote:

Anyone here has anything to do with LEGO as a hobby? 🤣

Does Bionicle count? I still have a lot of my old Bionicles from years and years ago, but I rarely even look at them anymore. 😵

It probably does. But beware, many Purist AFOLs (including partly myself) does not count them as Lego, some even think that they are just blasphemy! 🤣

Gemini000 wrote:

tayyare wrote:

Anyone here has anything to do with LEGO as a hobby? 🤣

Not as a "hobby" myself, but I still have all of my LEGO from childhood which is actually quite a fair amount; fills a number of small containers and a handful of shoeboxes. I don't often take it out but every once in a blue moon I have the urge to make something out of the stuff. :B

In addition to all my childhood lego (about 2000 pieces, 8 sets in total) I also have my adulthood purchases (about 160.000 pieces, 850+ sets) 🤣 I stopped buying about three years ago, though (except for my daughter of course), after purchasing a home and started having less and less disposable income.

You are hardly alone though. There is a huuuuge AFOL (adult fan of Lego) community around the world, well organized and measuring up to tens of thousands of people.

I have boxes full of Lego Technic too but haven't touched it in years.
When I was 11/12 or so I saved up to buy one of those Mindstorms RIS sets. Took me a LONG time but it was worth it in the end! I remember going to the toy store with one or two bills and a bag full of 10/25ct coins 🤣
Later I got the Cybermaster set and Mindstorms camera too, but these were slightly less interesting. At one point I found modified RCX firmware online which allowed me to write C programs for it. That was my first (and mildly frustrating) encounter with C/GCC/Linux 😀

You are probably talking about NQC (Not Quite C) from Dave Baum, one of the prominent figures of RCX sub forums at that time (1999-2000). He even wrote a couple of Mindstorm books, probably still available from amazon.

Yes, that was it! I recall making some cool robots with that, and learned quite a bit about both mechanics and programming 😀

edit: or maybe it was LegOS? I'm pretty sure it involved modified firmware and compiling your programs with GCC. NQC doesn't seem to use either? Or maybe I tried both at some point. Both names do sound familiar.