When there are so many single board computers and other products aimed at providing children with the means to learn about programming and other skills, it is easy to forget at time before the Arduino ...

Lego's Mindstorms robotics kits have been on the market since 1998, born from a collaboration between Lego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now, Lego has announced it will be ...

Today, Lego announces the third generation of its Mindstorms robotics system, Lego Mindstorms EV3. The kit, which includes cables, Lego Technic elements, motors, sensors, and a programmable brick, or ...

According to several reports, Lego has announced that it will discontinue its Mindstorms robotics kit before the end of the year. Lego Mindstorms is a hardware and software building kit that creates ...

Matthew Yglesias is on vacation. Lego is thriving over its competitors, and 3D printing may have just crossed a critical threshold. Here’s how they’re related. When I was in middle school, a friend ...

Students, hobbyists and tech-savvy parents who use–or plan to use–the LEGO Mindstorms kits with the NXT computer module usually program the device through a graphical language such as a subset of ...

Pour one out for Lego's impressively capable DIY robots, which will be powering down at the end of the year. Reading time 3 minutes The programming’s been on the wall for a while, but yesterday, as ...

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As Ken pointed out the other day, GeekDad has been fortunate enough to land some early LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kits. At our house, we’re big LEGO supporters, but we’re NXT noobs; our kids have been ...

LAS VEGAS--Soren Lund was making a lot of friends. He and hundreds of others were on hand for the "digital experience," a one-night extravaganza of companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sony and Panasonic ...

The Muppets did it; Godzilla did it; and now it's your turn to take Manhattan. As part of Expand 2014, we're teaming up with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® to host a robot-building competition. Here's the deal: ...