I'm a fan of Lego robotics. I've written over half a dozen books on the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotic system, and tinkering and prototyping with the NXT just never gets old. (And there's a NEW system ...

YouTube member AlmightyArjen has published details and a video of an awesome LEGO pneumatic compressor which has been automated using a little Arduino programming and hardware. Watch the demonstration ...

[Christopher] from the Bamberg Germany hackerspace, [Backspace], wrote in to tell us about one of the group’s most recent projects. It’s a Kinect-based 3D scanner (translated) that has been made ...

Now there’s even more you can do with LEGOs, besides stacking them and plucking them out of the bottom of your feet. Microduino’s new generation of little stackable Arduino modules, mCookie, is both ...

Using the Raspberry Pi to create robots is nothing new. But a new product called BrickPi seeks to make building Pi-based robots easier than ever with an add-on board and case that connect the Pi to ...

All it took was one well-made weekend project (plus a little notice from Arduino and Ars) for Phillipe Cantin’s Lego experiment to go viral—NBC News, Tested, Smithsonian, Gizmodo, the Discovery ...

Snekboard is an open hardware development board that’s designed to let you hook up to LEGO Power Functions motors and switches so you can build robots out of LEGO and control them with CircuitPython ...

Attention Facebook fans! Check out what you get when you combine a love for Zuckerberg’s social network, along with some Lego bricks and an Arduino board. To create the light, Matt first made use of ...