Anybody who has a penchant for LEGO probably has a bucket or two of messily mixed brick somewhere in their abode—like sands through the hourglass, so are the pieces of sets once destroyed by los gatos ...

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I don't know about you, but when I was kid I had boxes and boxes of LEGO that my parents bought me to keep me out of their hair. This LEGO wasn't sorted in the slightest, in fact it probably couldn't ...

Why it matters: For unleashing creativity across all ages, it's hard to beat Lego, the latest proof of which is given by Daniel West, creator of the Universal LEGO Sorting Machine. Combining AI, Lego ...

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In our opinion, the primary evidence of a properly lived childhood is an enormous box of every conceivable Lego piece, from simple bricks to girders and gears, all with a small town’s worth of ...

The next time you clean up your LEGO collection, you're going to wish you had this machine at home to do the dirty work. Built pretty much entirely with LEGO pieces (plus a Raspberry Pi and some ...

People, I don’t know about you, but I always wanted a quick way to separate the blue M&Ms from the rest. This is perfect for that: a Lego Mindstorms machine that uses its color sensors to sort M&Ms by ...