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 ...

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company’s consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation. Kids these days grow up with so much ...

The LEGO Mindstorms kits are one of the best lines LEGO has released in the last couple years. With the blend of basic computer science and simple building techniques, Mindstorms gives inexperienced ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS--Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, start your programming engines: Lego Mindstorms EV3 is here. The third full generation of Lego's programmable robotics platform, EV3 is aimed at both ...

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 ...

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The fantastical robotic creations you design and build with Lego Mindstorms are free to explore the world you release them into, so why should you be stuck behind a computer when it comes to ...

There's a new STEM option in town. The Robot Inventor kit can be turned into five robots, which can play basketball, walk, and shoot darts at intruders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Lego had announced the end of support for the Mindstorms Education EV3 app. Schools are still using the kits in lessons. Now the all-clear has been given. With Mindstorm Education EV3, children and ...

You may not know that Lego Mindstorms gets its name from a book by Seymour Papert called Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. I first read this book in the 1980s, and I took its basic ...