14 year old builds and designs own WWII lego tanks

[MarineUS]

http://gizmodo.com/5950663/this-14+year+old-kid-is-a-lego-genius

This is Stijn Oom, a 14-year-old kid from the Netherlands. Stijn started to play with Lego right after he was potty trained (literally).

Just a short time later, he's a certifiable Lego genius. He builds the best Lego tanks I've ever seen. The accuracy and precision is uncanny. His sense of design, the way he captures the details, impressive. This is his story, and these are his creations.

"I'm Stijn and i'm 14 years old, I live in Holland. I am quite fond of WW2 and I love LEGO," he tells me in an email interview.

He started out just like any other kid: "I think most people still remember the first time they got a Lego or Duplo model. The first time for me, was when I did Doo-Dooon the toilet for the first time by myself. My parents bought me the yellow excavator, from the Bob the Builder sets. I loved it. From that point I started to collect Duplo. Almost every Christmas, ‘Santa' got me a Duplo set."

When he turned five, he started to build with actual Lego. For that birthday, he got one of the old Creator sets. But—more surprisingly—at that early age he also began making Lego Technic sets. These are made for 14 year old kids and older. Technic is quite complex. Too complex for a five-year-old. But not for Stijn. Clearly, he was born for this.


More story in the link.

[Bodhi]

Man, his parents must have some cash to support that addiction!

[guncrasher]

my son took his new tv apart and I mean he took it apart into a zillion pieces.  then he put it back together as I told him either he put it back or I was gonna kick hick butt.  to my surprise he did put it back together and when i plugged it while hiding to make sure it didnt blow up in my face it actually worked.  he was in second grade.  some kids do some amazing kids when they are interested in how things work.


semp

[Dragon Tamer]

my son took his new tv apart and I mean he took it apart into a zillion pieces.  then he put it back together as I told him either he put it back or I was gonna kick hick butt.  to my surprise he did put it back together and when i plugged it while hiding to make sure it didnt blow up in my face it actually worked.  he was in second grade.  some kids do some amazing kids when they are interested in how things work.


semp

I tend to do that a lot with old electronic devices that die around the house.  It seems to me though that if I do put them back together I always end up with an extra screw somehow...

Here is an album showing what becomes of some of the parts that I grab out of the corpses.  Only a handful of those parts were actually purchased.
http://www.electro-tech-online.com/members/dragon-tamer-albums-shoe-box-radio.html

[MarineUS]

It's how I got into building computers. My dad used to be a computer engineer for IBM when they were big and he ALWAYS had spare PC parts lying around the house.

One day I went in his office, spent a couple of hours digging around and built my first computer. Just takes a strong interest to lead to awesome things.

[Stalwart]

  This kid gets a medal, made of LEGOs of course.

[RngFndr]

WTG Kid!

Konigsberg huh????