Steve Hassenplug is sitting in a van with seven other people on the way to a Lego convention in Washington, DC, explaining the limitations of Lego’s previous robot-building kit, called Mindstorms. "It ...

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 ...

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 ...

Play around with Lego Mindstorms NXT enough and at some point you'll inevitably get frustrated with NXT-G, its graphical programming language of "blocks" that you drag around and connect with "wires".

Last month, I found myself in GeekDad heaven. LEGO Australia needed some help to build four of their humanoid Mindstorms robots, Alpha Rex. And, given I’d been playing with a beta-version that was ...

The next generation Lego Mindstorms improve on the original 1998 model of do-it-yourself robotics with a “32-bit NXT control brick, ultrasonic sensors, a revamped set of pieces, a new piece of visual ...

The latest and greatest iteration of Lego’s robotic toolkits debuted today at CES. The new NXT “brick” is a 32-bit microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC or, for the first time, a Mac. It’s ...

May 3, 2006 We suspect the announcement by LEGO that it will release as open source the firmware of the LEGO MINDSTORMS microprocessor (the new NXT brick – the core component of its next generation ...

National Instruments and Lego Group on Tuesday announced a software update for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics system. The new 1.1 software — which is powered by National Instruments’ LabView ...

Lego plans to release as open source the microprocessor firmware of its programmable robot product line, Mindstorms NXT, the company said Monday. As part of its open-source efforts, the iconic toy ...

Check out this cool Lego robot that can draw pictures. The Lego Mindstorms NXT Drawing Robot was created by Daniele Benedettelli. A picture is imported into your PC and then converted from a picture ...

Although I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT kit in the mail early last week, it wasn’t until yesterday that I really had a chance to dig in, spending a whole day working through the included ...