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In mid-2020, the ''LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor'' was announced and released, based on the SPIKE Prime set that was first released under their Education offshoot the previous year. ''Robot Inventor'' was decidedly more simplified than its immediate predecessor; like SPIKE Prime, ''Robot Inventor'' featured a {{Website/Scratch}}-based programming environment, and its new hub featured fewer ports, tethered cables, and no LCD hub display, but instead added a 5x5 LED matrix, an accelerometer, gyroscopic sensor, speaker, and Bluetooth connectivity along with upgraded versions of preexisting sensors.
In October 2022, LEGO announced that [[LongRunners after 24 years]], ''Mindstorms'' would be officially discontinued, with its preexisting ''Robot Inventor'' development team being dispersed to other areas of the business and supplementary digital platforms -- such as the ''Robot Inventor'' app -- set to be discontinued in 2024. The SPIKE Prime platform continues to exist through LEGO Education, but while LEGO is "continuing to hold on to the trademark for the Mindstorms brand and assessing [their] future plans together with LEGO Education", the line has effectively become defunct.
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* RubeGoldbergDevice: As far as LEGO constructs go, Mindstorms kits – and many other LEGO products that use the ''LEGO Technic'' system, for that matter - by themselves have the potential to produce robots like this due to their nature as fully customizable motorized toys that can operate autonomously. [[UpToEleven Then there are the constructs that are more like this even by]] ''[[UpToEleven actual Rube Goldberg Devices]]''' [[UpToEleven standards]], if expanding the resource pools beyond the individual Mindstorms kits.
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* RubeGoldbergDevice: As far as LEGO constructs go, Mindstorms kits – and many other LEGO products that use the ''LEGO Technic'' system, for that matter - by themselves have the potential to produce robots like this due to their nature as fully customizable motorized toys that can operate autonomously. [[UpToEleven Then there are the constructs that are more like this even by]] ''[[UpToEleven actual by ''actual Rube Goldberg Devices]]''' [[UpToEleven standards]], Devices''' standards, if expanding the resource pools beyond the individual Mindstorms kits.
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* UpdatedReRelease: Twice, for the original ''Robotics Invention System'', and once in its successor's case. Between the two kits' programmable bricks, The RCX was the only one to receive hardware alterations between re-releases; both kits got updated firmware and new sensors for their respective bricks.
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* UpdatedReRelease: Twice, for the original ''Robotics Invention System'', and once in its successor's case. Between the two kits' programmable bricks, The RCX was the only one to receive hardware alterations between re-releases; both kits got updated firmware and new sensors for their respective bricks.bricks.
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''{{LEGO}} Mindstorms'' is a series of robotics kits released by LEGO that began in 1998. A very successful robotics platform with its various incarnations being used in schools worldwide, the LEGO Mindstorms series started with the ''Robotics Invention System'', which used a programmable brick called the "RCX" at the center of all its functions. Since the release of the first ''Robotics Invention System'' kit, there have been many expansions and additional robotics kits released beside it over time, among them the ''Robotics Discovery Set'', which used a pre-programmed brick that could receive instructions from an RCX called "Scout", and the ''[[Franchise/StarWars Dark Side and Droid Developer Kits]]'', both of which used the solely pre-programmed, single-motor "Micro Scout" brick. The original ''Robotics Invention System'' was [[UpdatedReRelease re-released twice, in the form of a 1.5 version and a 2.0 version]].
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* GeniusProgramming: Users very well-versed in the art of programming and building Mindstorms robots have been able to push the limits of what each kit's programmable bricks are capable of, to the point where a robot can even solve Rubik's Cubes and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp8Y2yjV4fU Sudoku puzzles]] without the individual puzzles being pre-programmed. An [=EV3=] robot called "Cubestormer 3" was once a world record holder for fastest Rubik's Cube solve by a robot, built using ''eight [=EV3=] programmable bricks and a Galaxy S4'', and solving the cube in 3.253 seconds!
