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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

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 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: ...