Those little Lego robots you've been building just became much more powerful. Willow Garage recently announced that it designed code to link the popular Lego Mindstorms NXT to the formidable Robot ...

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 ...

Most people who play with the LEGO Mindstorm NXT, especially the younger ones, never find a reason to go beyond the stock programming environment. However, LEGO has a good policy for groups who wish ...

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 ...

Self-balancing robots are pretty cool, but sometimes a bit too complex to make. [HippoDevices] shows us that it’s really not that hard, and you can even do it with Lego NXT and an Android device!

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 ...

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 ...

If you enjoyed the Wall-E Disney movie that was launched back in 2008 and directed by Andrew Stanton, you are likely familiar with the charming story of a small robot called Wall-E, or Waste ...

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 ...

Back in the last century, the US Department of Defense declared that Ada was going to be used everywhere and for everything. Books were published, schools build curriculum. Working programmers, ...

Aww, how cute. [Credit: Wolfgang Beer] Do you have an old Android phone stored away that you keep only for emergencies–or just aren’t sure what to do with it? You could breathe new life into the ...