First let me say this is a long story, but I feel I must explain completely. This year I entered a nxt robot in the fair. The developement of the robot was going great, until I upgraded to fedora 24. I was programming it in nxc and I was unable to install nxc due to nxc being outdated. I had a problem. Days later I worked around it, but time was running out. Then on the day of the fair I was still working on it. I made good progress but it wasn’t complete. Then finally it was complete! And then It wasn’t, ten minutes before I had to leave it wasn’t working. I was stressed out. I did get it working, and It did work at judgin,and then I made it to state. Then something went wrong, majorly wrong, the smart brick started to malfunction. I was not getting reliable readings from the touch sensor, a vital part of the robot. The robot would sometimes work, then sometimes not. I had no debugging tools because it was a lego smart brick. I didn’t work at the state fair. 
It was at that time I decided I was done, with the nxt. I couldn’t program it with nxc very easily, and I had no debugging tools if something went wrong. Now recently I decided to get BrickPi, and I am excited to build something that it will enable me to do, build my dream robot, a self driving car. Oh yes in case your wondering I found it in a ad if your reading this Dexter Ind. With BrickPi I can program in my favorite language, python. Change any faulty code or issue a bug report if something goes wrong with the drivers. Yes the BrickPi solves all my problems, well not all. 
-Kevin
If you were wondering it was a scanner. It would scan a image with the light sensor and display it on the screen…