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LEGO Discontinues MINDSTORMS, Its Original Robotics Platform
After a 24-year run, LEGO MINDSTORMS is discontinued. The revolutionary platform, which allows you to build and control a LEGO robot, will disappear from stores by the end of 2022. Though as BrickSet reports, software support for MINDSTORMS will continue for at least two years.
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Lego is moving on from its Mindstorms educational robots
As reported by Lego fan sites like Brick Fanatics and Brickset, Lego is discontinuing its Mindstorms kits, which are meant to let people make robots out of Lego bricks, pins, beams, motors, gears, and other pieces, and then program using Lego’s control hubs (via Gizmodo). The devices have been sold as a way to let children and adults easily build and program robots since 1998.
While the company isn’t completely done with the idea of educational robotics kits, it will stop selling its Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit by the end of this year.
The company’s statements suggest there’s an end date on its support for the various apps used to program and control Mindstorms robots on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Fire OS, saying that it’ll…
Lego Is Discontinuing Its Mindstorms Buildable Robot Kits
The programming’s been on the wall for a while, but yesterday, as reported by fan sites like Brick Fanatics and Brickset, Lego announced that it will be discontinuing its Mindstorms robotics lineup at the end of the year, and only guaranteeing support for the accompanying mobile apps, where the robots can be…