Comment by artemonster

I always thought these were rediculously overpriced for what they do. LEGO certainly aims at state-sponsored educational institutes to pay huge $ for their plastic crap with few motors and microcontrollers, not private people trying to buy an interesting and educational toy for their kids. Pehaps there are people here from this industry - why there are no affordable robotics kits these days? Are there any patents involved? Or the market is just too small for anyone to care? I always thought that some sorts of meccano based kit with an MCU board & unified sensor/motor fixtures (preferrably even 3d-printable!) would be a total massive success.