Reading this article provides some great insights into the innards of the NXT which I never knew of back them (and probably also could not entirely comprehend back when I was young). This article also reminded me that I still have the NXT and all the parts sitting around in a box somewhere; maybe I should try and dig them out and make something with them, 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.
No idea about the color scheme but it's nice.
Unrelated to any of this, this font reminds of an old Turbo Pascal program I wrote years ago (decades now) to extract a VGA font from the computer's ROM and use the character bitmaps in my own graphics programs. Nice memory I would not have had if not for your question, so thank you!
But the interesting part will be in scanning multiple tiles/minifigures (they have NFC iso15693 tags inside which are easily read) to come up with how they encode the sounds inside - they have about 100-ish bytes of data stored on them.
