How I built a four-legged MINDSTORMS Servo Spider with eight motors
Walking robots have always fascinated me. With LEGO, the limit is usually the number of motors you can add or the weight of all the …
Hook up any i2c sensor, hobby servo, and more to your LEGO robot with the ESP32 board
We are happy to introduce our new ESP32 expansion board for Lego Mindstorms robots: LMS-ESP32-v1.0. We built the board because the Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor …
Building a LEGO Robot Inventor 51515 Mecanum wheel omnidirectional car
I connected four Mecanum wheels to the four motors of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor 51515 kit. The result is an amazing car that can …
How to Program a MINDSTORMS Robot Snake in Python
When I first created the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Snake, I programmed it with Word Blocks (Scratch). However, a robot snake BEGS to be programmed …
Design Story: the Robo Lab Beekeeper robot for LEGO House
Last January, The LEGO House launched a new version of Robo Lab. It’s an experience where kids get to program real LEGO robots and have …
How to use the Huskylens with LEGO SPIKE Prime or Robot Inventor
After my first experiments with the Huskylens, here’s a complete guide to connecting the smart AI camera to your LEGO robot. For this guide, I’m …
Reuse your old EV3 brick to remote control your New SPIKE Prime or Robot Inventor hub!
Did you buy a new MINDSTORMS set, and is your EV3 brain catching dust? Time to pick it back up because you can use EV3 …
Keyframe motor animation with Python for MINDSTORMS and SPIKE robots
Have you ever wished you could animate your robot like a stop-motion puppet? Did you want to animate a real robot like a 3D model? …
How to display two-digit numbers on a 5×5 LED Matrix with LEGO SPIKE Prime or Robot Inventor
I found counting up to 10 very limiting on the led matrix display of the new SPIKE and MINDSTORMS hubs. I racked my head and …
How to remote control an EV3 Brick with SPIKE Prime over Bluetooth
Both MINDSTORMS EV3 and SPIKE Prime have an onboard BlueTooth chip. It turns out that it isn’t too hard to make them talk to each …
