LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, introduced in August, includes a new drag-and-drop, graphical programming environment custom developed by NI and powered by LabVIEW.

The original Mindstorms systems, cool as they may have been at the time, look like children's toys from an 8-bit world. They featured the familiar Lego look and had limited sensor options.

The LabVIEW Module for LEGO MINDSTORMS, a free download, is available for education and retail. The software helps students, engineers and hobbyists alike create programs that communicate with and ...

LabVIEW for Lego Mindstorms is supported by a site, K12Lab.com, which helps teachers develop lesson plans, find resources and get help with technical questions. The new software uses the same ...

Lego Education and National Instruments will shortly launch an edition of LabVIEW software specifically for high school students to use with Lego robotic products.

May 3, 2006 We suspect the announcement by LEGO that it will release as open source the firmware of the LEGO MINDSTORMS microprocessor (the new NXT brick – the core component of its next ...

The Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kit will offer open source code, Bluetooth connectivity and Mac-compatibility when it debuts this summer.

The build featured more than 15,000 individual bricks and packed three Mindstorms NXT "brain" bricks used to control an array of servo motors as well as light, color and ultrasonic sensors.