<story><title>Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors</title><url>https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego-education/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meibo</author><text>Sadly, LEGO keeps discontinuing great and simple systems like this and replacing them with &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; versions that you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to use a phone with, since they don&amp;#x27;t want to ship remotes anymore. Giving an 8 year old a phone to play with their LEGO sets kinda defeats the point(they&amp;#x27;ll want to play Minecraft instead, from personal experience).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s not even any features like Mindstorms that offer customization&amp;#x2F;programming, it&amp;#x27;s literally just a clunky touchscreen remote that doesn&amp;#x27;t pair with the model half of the time. I guess phones on the box sell better.</text></comment>
<story><title>Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors</title><url>https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego-education/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsre</author><text>When I was young I always enjoyed playing with Mindstorms. It was my first experience programming. For me it was amusing that I could build some robot with Lego and make it retrieve a ball from our living room.&lt;p&gt;Sadly jumping from the block oriented programming to &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; programming of the Hitachi H8 microcontroller was not very straight forward, so I kind of hit a wall in that regard. Maybe this collaboration will act as a better gateway to &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; programming.</text></comment>