Lego Mindstorms: NXT Intelligent Brick

Advantages: Its very educational and fun for kids and adults too
Disadvantages: Its a bit complex for those not into Lego, bluethooth problems

...Intelligent Brick Rechargeable lithium battery and charger 3 servo motors 1 ultrasonic distance and movement sensor 1 sound sensor, with sound pattern 1 light sensor, detecting light intensity 2 touch sensors (press/release/bump detection) 3 converter cables, for using Mindstorms RIS 2.0 sensors and motors with the NXT brick (each 39cm) 7 connector cables (one 20cm, four 35cm, two 50cm) 3 lamps Extras Well that's pretty much the whole Lego spectrum of products. In particular I would go to ebay and get extra axels & pins. There are a number of specialist sites providing extra sensors for the brain, see the links section next. These include; Compass sensor Color sensor Accelerometer sensor Infrared seeker Gyroscopic sensor Infrared link sensor You can also get a number of really good books from amazon... Read review

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Advantages: A new generation in lego building
Disadvantages: Is very expensive

...Gone are the days where you just build house, towns, cars from lego, this new genius invention enables you to not only build a robot but with its new technology you can actually bring your robot to life. With this kit you can create many different designs of lego robots, the easiest can be built in just under 30 minutes. With the ingenius NXT Intelligent Brick which is the robots 'BRAIN' hosting a 32 bit microprocessor it enables the robot to obey your every command, this microprocessor supports USB and bluetooth also to add to its many benefits. It comes with a quick start guide which is very simple to follow, software and step-by-step building instructions to create an bundance of different designed robots, including humanoids, vehicles and animals and they obey every comand. Basically by connecting through your PC, you... Read review

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Advantages: Fun, creative, historic, durable
Disadvantages: Some funny bricks, costly

...such as plastic-framed windows. Lego also have moved into different sectors and different creative tools. For example, Lego launched a series of software including the famous Legoland game, in which you build and manage a theme park similar to Legolands around the work and Lego Racer, a childish car racing game. Another example is the popular Clickits series for girls. They make non-Lego accessories by linking together different object, to create an attractive picture frame for example. I don't know much about these as they're relatively new. Now naturally the famous Duplo, bigger objects, but still heavily Lego based. The bricks are larger than Lego, the characters are and it has a tendency to include animals. These are for pre-school children. Lego Mindstorms are robots made out of Lego style object. You can control and program them... Read review

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