The new Lego set is inspired by the original Mindstorms and compatible with all Lego bricks. With its bright, flat cables hanging out everywhere, it may look like some retro computer cobbled together ...

The EV3 Programmer App consists of the 11 most popular programming blocks in the LEGO MINDSTORMS software, including action blocks, flow blocks and comment blocks. After writing and saving a program ...

On Tuesday, Lego Education introduced SPIKE Prime, a new robotics kit to teach middle school students how to code. It's up for preorder now for about $330, and shipping in August. With SPIKE Prime, ...

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The programming’s been on the wall for a while, but yesterday, as reported by fan sites like Brick Fanatics and Brickset, Lego announced that it will be discontinuing its Mindstorms robotics lineup at ...

A new STEM-friendly Lego set teaches kids how to construct their own robots and learn computer coding while they do it. Playing with Lego has always been seen as a positive thing by most parents, as ...

Instead of pointing students toward more complex projects, Spike Prime is about basic knowledge and practicality. As Esben Stærk Jørgensen, the president of Lego Education, said during a press event ...

Soren Lund, senior marketing director for Lego Mindstorms, says that when the original Mindstorms was launched in 1998, fans hacked the programming language used to control the robots and started ...

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 ...

I got one of the OG mindstorm sets and damn it was a fun time back then as a kid. Although I never got into the "programming" side of it (t was software that did simple if, then, and, or commands ...