If you’re looking for a fun family project to round out summer vacation, consider picking up this gigantic Robot Building Kit. It’s designed for kids eight and up, although its 901-piece assembly will ...

While Lego Boost is great for younger kids, preteens and teens will appreciate the power and versatility of the company's Mindstorm EV3. The community support for Mindstorms is tremendous, because it ...

As much as I love the idea of STEM toys–gadgets that try to teach science, technology, engineering and math to kids—many tend to fall into one of two unfortunate extremes. Either they’re too ...

Robot arms are getting cheaper than ever, making it possible for you to get your own personal assembly line / disembodied droid buddy to have around. But maybe you’re not ready to spend $500 for a ...

Small robots can be found at all levels from STEM toys for kids all the way through to complex hacker projects. Somewhere along that line between easy enough for anyone to build and interesting enough ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's very easy to dismiss Nintendo's new line of Labo build-and-play toys as merely cardboard. For adults especially, building the Variety Kit's five ...

This remote controlled, Arduino-based robot was created by a young student named [Quin] who likes to teach electronics classes at hackerspaces. It is an adaptation of this awesome, fast, fully ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lego bricks are getting cozy with the iPhone and other Apple devices in the latest incarnation of the Mindstorms robotics kit. Lego ...

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To get ahead in the 21st century, children not only need to be able to use technology but to develop it. That's why so many parents want their kids to learn how to code, and there's no better way to ...