Many kits are too polished and that leads to beginners feeling that they’ll never be able to build something complex like a robot.

We try building our first Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot, and make some decent headway.

Raspberry Pi + Lego = robot Raspberry Pi add-on will help you build Lego Mindstorm robots $45 BrickPi connects Pi to motors, sensors, and Lego bricks.

The Lego Boost app guides you through the build process in place of old-school paper instructions. And for builds as complicated as the Boost’s offerings, that’s a huge help.

Lego Boost, a new robot building and programming kit, could turn anyone into a mad (ly) happy scientist.