Their standard hardware is based on off-the-shelf platforms such as Arduino and LEGO Mindstorms EV3 ... at least you can rest easy knowing your software bugs can hitch a ride off the planet.

Into this late-’90s vacuum left in the wake of the 8-bit home computer revolution came LEGO’s Mindstorms kits, a box of interlocking goodies with a special programmable brick, which gave kids ...

with very little oversight from Lego. So little that a “right to hack” was written into the Mindstorms software license. “We came to understand that limiting creativity is the opposite of ...