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Originally Posted by Cepak
My 7 year old daughter really wants to build robots. She is always bugging me about building one. Last year I bought her an R2D2, and, although she likes playing with it, it doesn't seem enough for her. She isn't shy with computers and loves to play video games. I'm contemplating buying her the Lego Mindstorm 2.0 system and I'm wondering, would this system be too advanced for a 7 year old? I'm a software engineer so I can help her with it, but will someone this age be able to do things with it on their own? I'd love to buy it for her, but the last thing I want is something that costs $200 to just occupy closet space. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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Cepak,
The Mindstorms Kit sounds like a good buy for your daughter especially if she is advanced and uses Lego porducts already. Althought the intricacies of RIS 2.0 will escape her for the moment, there are instructions on building several robots with preprogrammed software that will run on each of the robots you build. If she can follow picture instructions, with your help she should have no problem getting a lot out of this product. You, on the other hand will find the software confining. It is designed for children with no previous programming experience.
If your daughter does not have experience building with Lego products, she might be a little overwhelmed until she can identify the different sizes, shapes and connectors.