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My family were poor when I was little.

We couldn't afford fashionable clothing or Transformer toys... I knew shoes were more important and toys were never a consideration so I never asked.

All I had was lego.

That was more than enough.

Each Christmas I'd ask for a small set of gears and cogs (Technical Lego).

One year my parents bought me a battery powered lego motor.

I built film projectors, physical mechanical arcade games based on Spy Hunter, an automatic cat feeder, but my passion was attempting to perfect a bipedal walking machine with counter-balance movements so it was able to complete steps standing on one small foot and carry the weight of the motor's battery-pack.

I have no words to describe how much fun I had.

If discover an engineering design problem with what I was building, I'd go for a walk in the sun to do some lateral thinking. 'Happy memories.

Setting ridiculous goals with enormous constrains on parts and motor power (which required gearing) opened worlds of glorious creativity.