My first ever programming was with the original brick, I made a scanner with the light sensor and a terrible python script that took the values from the serial port and turned them into a bitmap.

> though I don't have any ideas for what I should make exactly.

That was the best part! You'd turn the box of Lego over and dump it all on the ground and sit down and start building and then suddenly you'd get inspired and an idea would pop into your head and flow mode would engage and you'd lose the next couple of hours just building whatever. Eventually mom/dad/the babysitter would pull you away for food, and maybe you'd talk them into bringing your creation to the dining table so you'd actually eat, but either way, just losing time to building things definitely formed my personality and forged my identity growing up.

Wow. how come you still own stuff from your childhood? This is the ultimate flex and rich. People nowadays can't afford to rent big places so we can't just hoard stuff from the past.

Be grateful