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

As long as the Lego NXT motors are strong enough you’ll be able to make most different shaped robots easy to balance. You’re going to need an Android ADK board to provide communication between ...

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 ...

But the Lego NXT Mindstorms isn't just about building robots - that's only half the fun - the other half is controlling them, all of which can be done via your PC or Mac with the accompanying easy ...

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 ...

An NXT-based webserver was the next project on the list, as was remote robot control over the Internet. Finally, they wrapped the week up by configuring their Lego robot to send a tweet.

LEGO has even opened up the source code for the NXT brick firmware to encourage Mindstorms NXT hacking. Likewise, the software, developed in conjunction with National Instruments, offers a ...

Lego just announced their Mindstorm NXT which is (gulp) "smarter, stronger, and more intuitive than ever." The new toolset features a wide range of sensors allowing your bot to now sense and react ...

This NXT scanner can scan and save images as BMP-files and those images can be saved in either 24-bit true color, 8-bit color or of course, gray scale. Honestly the scanner isn't exactly a great ...

Why spend a cool $1000 or more on a touchless toilet when you can make a Roboflush mechanism yourself with a bit of programming and LEGO NXT Mindstorms? The ultrasonic sensor discovers your ...

We’ve hacked a robot called “Mouse,” which was created by one of Lego’s developers using the Mindstorms NXT robotics kit. Click here for our hack, then move the cursor over a letter (A ...