LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, introduced in August, includes a new drag-and-drop, graphical programming environment custom developed by NI and powered by LabVIEW.

Lego released the first version of Mindstorms in 1998, and the second iteration, Mindstorms NXT, almost exactly six years ago at that year's edition of the International Consumer Electronics Show.

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 ...

About LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is a robotics toolset for armchair inventors, robotics fanatics and LEGO builders ages 10 and older to build and program robots that do what they want.

Hacking the NXT With LEGO's Blessing Most people who play with the LEGO Mindstorm NXT, especially the younger ones, never find a reason to go beyond the stock programming environment.

Programs are coded by dragging a chain of these squares into the work area, and it's simple to follow Lego's initial suggestions and code a bot that drives forward when it sees something, stops ...

For background, LEGO Mindstorms is an incredible robotics kit that combines a programmable "brick" into which you can plug myriad motors, sensors, and other widgets with a graphical programming ...

Since 1998, LEGO's Mindstorms products have generated a veritable legion of young robot builders, and the company's NXT is the most significant update to its unique robot-building kit to date. The ...

Lego’s claim that you’ll have your first robot in action after 30 minutes is entirely accurate, even though all it will do is drive, turn around and return to its starting position – to hoots of ...

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 ...