I made an exciting discovery today in the vendor hall at VS Live.  SoftWIRE is here and I stopped by to talk to them about their tool.  I ran across it a couple years back when I was looking for tools to help teach my kids programming concepts.  They have a library of controls for programming Lego Mindstorm robots among many other things.  Now that the toolkit is free you can all afford to pick up a Mindstorms kit right!  I asked about some books to help me get started teaching the kids and what do you know they now have some teacher and student guides included with the SoftWIRE software.  I am looking forward to giving this one another look and getting my kids and others interested in programming.  I think I will stop back by their booth and pick up a few extra CD's for the user group.

Thanks SoftWIRE!