About
Welcome to the Nxt Club! This blog site is created by two long time robotics enthusiasts Steve and Lisa Chua. Our plan is to blog about the history and future of Mindstorms and share our robot building stories. In addition, to allow mutual sharing of every robot builders’ knowledge and experiences, a forum system is integrated to the site for everyone to contribute. We hope you’ll frequent our Nxt forum and share with us all the fun things the wonderful robotics world has to offer.
About Steve and Lisa
Steve started building autonomous Mindstorms-like LEGO robots back in 1991 as an undergraduate student at MIT. In 1992, he joined the MIT Media Lab research group known as the “LEGO Group” (official the Epistemology and Learning group), working on the “Programmable Brick” project. The project and the group was partially funded by LEGO. The “Programmable Brick” project was eventually productized by LEGO as the LEGO Mindstorms.
After MIT, Steve continues to work on LEGO robots with his wife Lisa. They founded the University of Massachusetts Computing Association while Lisa was a student at UML, and introduced LEGO Robotics to the Computing Association and the UML Computer Science department. For more details on their fun LEGO robot adventures, please read Steve’s blog on this site.
At present, Steve lives in Seattle and works for a major software company as a program manager. Lisa worked in the high tech industry for a few years before becoming a full-time mom. Her newest toy is a Roomba Robotic vacuum cleaner. No surprise here…