★ 002. mr t in action

So today... we played with Lego!

Our task was to build our very own Lego robot, which included programming it to get from the entrance of our building to our studio room. But of course it isn't that easy -- this robot is supposed to be our chess piece from last week. It moves the way we had designed the protocol.

The building was not hard at all, it was fun. The programming however... was a lot harder than I expected. (And on the box it says ages 10+ ...hmm, you'd have to be a very smart 10 year old to understand this). It took me a while to understand, but I've gotten the hang of programming very basic movements. However I'm still quite confused about the more complicated stuff.

We basically had to figure out ourselves how the programming worked, and sometimes even when the programming made sense on the screen, our robot would move in a way we didn't understand. We had a lot of trouble, but not a lot of time. I would've preferred it if we were taught how to programme the robot rather than learning by ourselves, we would have learned faster and wouldn't be as confused. We weren't the only ones in this situation, a few other groups had trouble figuring it out as well. This was a very challenging task, and only tomorrow will we find out if Mr T can make it to it's destination...