Enhancing Lego Mindstorms with Arduino Lego Mindstorms NXT is a sophisticated and fun educational robotics set that teaches kids and adults engineering and programming skills.

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The Lego model uses an Arduino to move the rods up and down (using a servo) and controls the simulated Cherenkov radiation (courtesy of blue LEDs).

Next he forgot about the project for a year. Then he remembered it, and built an interface for an Arduino Uno to hook to the controller and wrote a library for the interface.

How impressive is this? It's how to build what is described as a fully-functional microscope using Arduinos and a Raspberry Pi. There's also LEGO and 3D printing in the mix.

Previously, Cantin even used a similar Arduino-LEGO combination to responded to another LEGO Stack Exchange question. (Forum posters wanted to know if LEGO city-scale wheels could be motorized.

DIY micro-robotics is having a moment. The latest project to take the crowdfunding route to build out a platform for playing around with robotics is called BrickPi. As its name suggests, BrickPi ...