LEGO Brings Its MINDSTORMS Programmer App To The Play Store

LEGO has been around a while; most of us can and still do fondly remember days spent on the floor, building a castle or the coolest ray gun ever, or a submersible combat aircraft with ejector seats and those simple little coloured blocks have come a long way. Now you have pieces with moving parts, decorative designs, entire set-piece packs, and apparently even programmable robots.

The robots are courtesy of LEGO’s MINDSTORMS series. The pack gives you a number of blocks and moving pieces, as well as a special “P-brick” that lets you program the finished robot to perform tasks or respond to input from its sensors. The man-child in us couldn’t ask for more. You have to manually program the robot by connecting the P-brick to a computer, but can then connect to it via an Android smartphone or tablet to control it with this app. However, the newest release from LEGO is attempting to make the set more intuitive and convenient.

There’s an all new LEGO MINDSTORMS Programmer app that lets you connect to the P-brick with an Android device using Bluetooth, allowing you to drag and drop commands and give your bot instructions. The app so far only supports a tablet interface and best of all it’s free!

Now can we get an LDD app please LEGO?

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You can download it via the Play Store

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Rich

Founder of Brick Fanatics. I'm Richard Hayes a 34 year old runner based in Sheffield. However I'm better known as the Mohican Runner due to my very distinctive hair style. I've gone from 20st to a runner, I've raised over £1.3 million for charity by doing various running challenges. I'm supported by Absolute360,SockMine and Tribesports. Currently I have a 17:20 5k PB, 36:02 10k PB, 81:11 HM PB & 3:08:24 for the marathon. You can find me on my blog http://mohicanrunner.co.uk

One thought on “LEGO Brings Its MINDSTORMS Programmer App To The Play Store

  • 18/11/2015 at 22:44
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    It’s also available for iOS through the iTunes app store.

    I really want EV3 to get my daughter into programming but It’s been out a while and I’m worried I’ll spend all that money just in time for them to announce ‘EV4’.

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