PC Magazine - USA (2020-08)

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block to power the robots and execute commands. Of course, like all
Mindstorms kits, you can build your own robotic creations with the tools at
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houses the Mindstorms Robot Inventor Kit is the most advanced one yet. It
features six input/output ports for sensors and motors, a six-axis gyro-
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and all robots built with it can be controlled wirelessly over Bluetooth with the
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macOS. The app supports programming in both the tile-based Scratch
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written code.

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used by the Mindstorms EV3 kit, which had eight. But the distance sensor
features a six-pin adapter that enables the use of third-party components,
including electronics boards, adding more expandability to the kit. Lego has not
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