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It's fun when a collection of plastic parts seems to have personality. I put together a robot with Lego's new Mindstorms NXT kit, set it on the kitchen floor, and watched it trundle forward on its ...

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 ...

My son was at his mom’s house and his phone was dead. So I posted a question to his wall on Facebook: “We have a chance to review the new Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. Are you interested?” Eli’s reply ...

There’s also a Python library (basically a set of commands you can use to control the robot) available to go alongside the HAT, which will let you write software to control the robot parts you’ve got ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. This article is more than 8 years old. At New York Toy Fair last week Lego ...

My first introduction to the Technic brand of Lego bricks was with the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot kit back in 2006. The earlier version of Mindstorms, the Robotics Invention System (RIS), used the ...

Pour one out for Mindstorms. The build-it-yourself Lego robotics brand is getting discontinued at the end of next year, but that doesn’t mean it won’t forever live on in our hearts. But it almost didn ...

[Uli Kilian] — best known for solving 100 Rubik’s cubes during the 2011 London Marathon — got addicted to a free iPad game called Jurassic Park builder. Being the efficient man he is, he soon realized ...

Building a Lego model of a Super Nintendo console, with sliding buttons and a spring-loaded eject button, is pretty impressive. Building a Lego SNES, two corded controllers, and a game cartridge, each ...

CHESHIRE — A five-member community robotics team made up of middle-schoolers has become the state champions in the First Lego League Challenge for students in the fourth through eighth grades. The ...