As the Danish toy company is set to discontinue the iconic robot inventor kit, fans who grew up with it are sad but yet hopeful. Mid-day Online spoke to three such fans for whom LEGO has become an important part of their adult lives – not only because they have passed it on to their children but also because they have built usable robots with it
Nikhil Fernandes and his team built an Alexa-powered beach clean-up rover with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Amazon Alexa and worked with an Echo Device through the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit over the Internet. Photo Courtesy: Nikhil Fernandes
“It is completely disheartening,” says an unhappy Pune-based Nishad Bhatawadekar, an adult LEGO fan, who has been closely following the news of LEGO discontinuing its Mindstorm Robot Inventor Kit. “There will be no Mindstorm at all after this for the first time in over 20 years. The rationale that LEGO has given is that they will be focusing more on different educational products,” he adds.
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