An Introduction

Hello and welcome to our blog.

We, that is the Elder family, are in the process of discovering just how creative we can get with LEGO Technic and at some point MINDSTORMS on the new EV3 platform.

Raymond started his discovery of what LEGO Technic can do about two years ago via the Lego Crazy Action Contraptions kit he received one Christmas.

Since then he has been given or purchased three additional LEGO Technic sets.

LEGO Technic has been one way to get a very active six year old boy to sit down, get focused, and run a project start to finish in one sitting. In some cases that sitting can be six to eight _hours_ in duration!

Over the last couple of years I have seen first hand how his interest in putting the sets together and tearing them apart again have been critical in his development on so many levels.

That drove me to purchase my first set about four months or so ago. The set was 8081 Extreme Cruiser.

Not long after that I picked up the 8070 Super Car set.

Raymond and I put that one together in about an eight hour sitting one Sunday afternoon.

Needless to say I now have the LEGO Technic bug big time. :)

Obviously, LEGO Technic, and at some point in the not too distant future MINDSTORMS, is not cheap.

So, to help support this new hobby of ours we have started Elder Bricks.

Some of the links on the site will point to Amazon via our Associates account. Other links may be to future MOC Instructions that we create and may sell or give away.

In the end it is our intent to share what we learn and to help fund some of our projects that will show up in these blog posts.

We hope it will be a win-win for all!

Philip Elder
Elder Bricks