After 7 years, Lego releases a new Mindstorms kit

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After all this time Mindstorm still does not (officially) support Linux. I find that somewhat frustrating.

Unofficial is pretty good though. I got an EV3 at a garage sale, and it only took about an hour to get Linux up on it, booted from SD card, and being able to ssh in via a tiny USB wifi dongle I happened to have on hand, and run sample Python scripts that did things with the motors.

I haven't tried for a while, especially not with Python. That's exciting!

Could you point me to a website? It is ev3dev?

I wonder how they will handle their supply chain difficulties. It looks like they are releasing this in fall.

I currently have an order pending for 50 days still waiting on inventory to arrive. Their communication on this has been incredibly poor and definitely not what I expect from Lego.

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