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, the popular toy brick maker, graduated from simple plastic playthings in 1998 when it released its Mindstorms Robotics Invention System (RIS). Born of a collaboration between Lego and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The big picture: Lego has announced plans to shut down its Mindstorms line of programmable robotics following a 24-year run. Mindstorms debuted in September 1998 as an educational tool for children ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year a fellow by the name Shubham Banerjee created a LEGO project that went viral. Banerjee is a 12-year-old inventor – he created the "BRAIGO", a Braille printer made using a LEGO ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is a new set that lets ...

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: ...

This LEGO synth made by [Rare Beasts] had us grinning from ear to ear. It combines elements from LEGO Mindstorms with regular blocks in order to make music with color. A different music sample is ...