Tag Archives: LEGO

Hundreds of school children in the North East participated in this year’s First Lego League STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) education competition. “This event is focussed on removing stereotypes and supporting inclusivity in STEM learning, to empower young people to explore robotics and innovative projects using the humble Lego brick,” according to accounting software company Sage, which supports the ...

An eye-catching Lego construction - using an Arduino Uno and OLED display, representing a food dispenser, in miniature...

It's certainly not unheard of for some of the home-brewed Gadget Master project to include Lego... so I thought this book was worth highlighting: High-Tech LEGO Projects.

Basically, the system is like Scratch with some gamification. There are specific tasks to complete that involve navigating courses via programmatic commands (the familiar colour-coded controls that snap together).

There are a lot of key words in this one: LEGO Education SPIKE Prime, a system to encourage younger ones to get more involved with STEM subjects, or STEAM as LEGO puts it.

Iot? How about IoL? The Internet of Lego! I thought I should take a look at the Pi-powered (among other things) alternative to Internet of Things.

At the recent NIDays in London it was interesting to see Lego exhibiting. They were promoting the IET-backed First Lego League (FFL).

This one is worthy of attention for a whole host of reasons. Not only is a young Gadget Master successfully punching well-above his weight, his original development of Lego’s Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit is now being used to provide a low-cost Braille printer. The BBC has reported that the 13-year-old from San Jose has caught the eye of Intel, no ...

Mindstorms isn’t a stranger to long-time Gadget Master readers – we have covered it a number of times. Well, National Instruments has announced that its powerful design software, LabVIEW, is now fully compatible with LEGO Mindstorms EV3. The LabVIEW Module for LEGO Mindstorms is a free download, available for both education and retail purposes. Basically, it works with a wide range of sensors, ...

With a new initiative dubbed Build with Chrome Google is bringing plastic brick construction to its Chrome browser. Showcasing WebGL and 3D graphics, and a bit of Google Maps, the idea is to liberate plastic brick construction (and promote the forthcoming LEGO movie, of course). See the Official Google Blog post – Chrome + LEGO: You can build whatever you ...