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 ...

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 announced Monday that a new, $350 Mindstorms EV3 kit will have the ability to talk to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches through Bluetooth wireless connections. That means Lego builders can use 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 ...

Yesterday, The Lego Group announced it will discontinue its Mindstorms-branded products at the end of 2022, as first reported by Brick Fanatics and several other Lego fan websites. In an official ...

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Lego's Mindstorms have been a popular platform for teaching robotics. The new Mindstorm NXT takes this to the next level with a sophisticated NXT control module featuring a pair of built-in processors ...

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Owen Herman, left, and Matthew Gibbons watch intently as the last two Lego automatons battle for victory during Lego Robotics Camp at Luzerne County Community College on Thursday. Samuel Field watches ...

Toys that teach kids to code are as hot in 2017 as Cabbage Patch Kids were in 1983, and for good reason. For today's generation of children, learning how to program is even more important than ...

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