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 ...

Following in the likes of MakerBot and RepRap, Will Gorman at BattleBricks has created a new 3D printer that you can build yourself. There's only one caveat: it's made of Lego. The MakerLegoBot is ...

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 ...

The success of Lego's Mindstorms NXT has been one of the main contributing factors to the widespread interest in robotics. NXT enthusiasts of all ages have created some of the coolest designs, even ...

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 ...

Smart people don’t put their toys away, they build machines to do it for them. Case and point: this NXT project which can sort LEGO pieces. Just dump a bucket of random blocks in a hopper on one end ...

As Ken pointed out the other day, GeekDad has been fortunate enough to land some early LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kits. At our house, we’re big LEGO supporters, but we’re NXT noobs; our kids have been ...

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 ...

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 ...