History Of Lego Mindstorms

This study aims to present a literature review on educational potential of LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics sets.

History of lego mindstorms. The Mindstorms kit was based on work done at the MIT Media Lab by learning researchers Seymour Papert and Mitchel Resnick. LEGO Mindstorms NXT was announced at CES in 2006 and has been the current version for seven years. These robot sets rooted to Seymour Paperts LOGO studies which have much influence Instructional Technology in 1960s.

LEGO Mindstorms NXT is the most popular and commonly used robotics set for educational purposes. The FIRST LEGO League is created. LEGO Education is celebrating its 40th anniversary and we are exploring the history of this unique division of the LEGO Group.

In mid 2006 Mindstorms NXT replaced Robotic Invention Systems. These robot sets rooted to Seymour Papert s LOGO studies which have much influence Instructional Technology in 1960 s. NXTs and EV3s are similar in almost every way.

The MINDSTORMS line was the product of a collaboration between the Lego Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. In my machine learning course our professor wants us to kind of lead our own projects this semester in contrast to having given very specific assigned projects in the past. In his book Mindstorms sound familiar Papert was a proponent of computers as a teaching tool to help children with systematic problem solving.

EV3 just brings the idea bang up to date for the smart phone and tablet generation. FIRST stands For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. The EV3 platform is the fourth generation of LEGO Mindstorms that came out in 2013 and is the most current version on the market.

Mindstorms NXT supports a lot of programming languages. Wheels bars adapters hubs etc motors with sensor of position and tachometer touch sensor sound sensor color sensor ultrasonic sensor. Today the educational and consumer world is saturated with robots.