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 ...

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 ...