I am a scientist with background in electrical engineering and computer science, currently working in the field of computational and systems biology.
I believe that it is important for people to do fun things and things that make them happy. For that reason, I am trying to get the most from every day. Sometimes, it’s my work, sometimes it’s one of my hobbies, sometimes it’s just relaxing, and sometimes it’s a little bit of each.
I always found the idea about making robots interesting, but I’ve never really thought about doing it until I saw an article about the Lego® Mindstorms™ robot in the December 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum. It sounded like a fun thing to have – I got it and started learning more about robotics. So far I am enjoying it and I’m having fun (well, most of the time).
Unfortunately, there are not many on-line resources that provide introductory tutorials for the Lego® Mindstorms™ robot programming, This blog will be my effort to describe how to build a simple robot and how to program it to perform different tasks, and I’ll try to tailor it in the way that it does not heavily depend on the previous programming experience.