Right after a 24-yr run, LEGO MINDSTORMS is discontinued. The revolutionary platform, which permits you to develop and regulate a LEGO robot, will disappear from outlets by the end of 2022. Though as BrickSet experiences, application assistance for MINDSTORMS will proceed for at least two years.
We aren’t stunned by this information. LEGO has not introduced a MINDSTORMS package since the Robot Inventor (51515) introduced in 2020. Furthermore, most educational institutions use LEGO’s more recent robotics system, the education and learning-concentrated SPIKE Key—we have not read any exciting MINDSTORMS news in a very lengthy time.
But it’s continue to disappointing to see MINDSTORMS’ death. As opposed to SPIKE Key, which is below the thumb of LEGO Schooling, MINDSTORMS was a generally-readily available product or service. Adults could simply obtain and establish MINDSTORMS kits, and in-individual activities usually encouraged persons to develop MINDSTORMS robots collectively.
LEGO claims that it will funnel the MINDSTORMS team into “different places of the enterprise.” Presumably, some users of the MINDSTORMS crew will get the job done on SPIKE Key, whilst other folks might develop LEGO sets meant for adults, this sort of as the above-engineered LEGO Mighty Bowser or LEGO Motorized Lighthouse.
At the time of composing, LEGO’s closing MINDSTORMS kit is sold out. If you happen to have this package, I advise positioning it in a nice container, as it will most likely come to be a collector’s product.
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