A component that provides a high-level interface to a color sensor on a LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robot. It returns the color code from 0 to 7 corresponding to no color, black, blue, green, yellow, red, ...

LAS VEGAS--Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, start your programming engines: Lego Mindstorms EV3 is here. The third full generation of Lego's programmable robotics platform, EV3 is aimed at both ...

Lego's Mindstorms kits were born into a world where the PC reigned supreme for control; the company is ushering in 2013 with an acknowledgment that its build-it-yourself toy is part of a much wider ...

Lego announced a new building set at CES, with a focus on introducing young children to the basics of programming. Lego Boost combines building blocks with sensors, motors and app control to let kids ...

Many tech-savvy kids can operate a smartphone before they can swim or make their own meals. If the folks behind Lego Mindstorms have their way, they'll be creating robots before doing those other ...

My inner 9-year-old is blown away, but my outer 35-year-old balks at the $349 price. It's been a long time—probably 20 years, at least—since I sat down with a giant bunch of Lego bricks in front of me ...

I never had much of an opportunity as a kid to play with mechanical engineering toys or anything remotely to do with robots. As a girl, the world steered me towards toys that fostered imaginary play: ...