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http://www.legoeducation.com/store/default.aspx?CategoryID=159&by=9&c=1

Not cheap-- but far more than just wedo avaiable.

not even all lego products.. search for 'brutus'

My brother and I went to a "class" thingy that used LEGO Dacta. Dacta was basically the precursor to Mindstorms, just less n00bified. You wrote the programs in actual code, not using LEGO's horrible GUI with blocks. Shortly after we completed the class two years in a row, LEGO released Mindstorms. I got it for Christmas that year and was very excited. That is, until I tried to program one of my bots. The stupidly-simple GUI for writing programs killed my interest in the whole thing.

My brother and I made some pretty awesome models including a conveyor belt that sorted based on color, a temperature controlled green house, and a black and white autofeed scanner. The scanner was epic. It was so cool to see the picture we drew show up on the computer screen.

After poking around, it looks like you can still buy the stuff: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/?global=usa

Some of the neater Lego people sets is available through the Lego education line - stuff like the community workers set: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?CategoryID=169&by=9&ID=420&c=1&t=0&l=0

or some of the Duplo people stuff like the "world people" set: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?CategoryID=155&by=9&ID=1370&c=1&t=0&l=0

Some of the neater Lego people sets is available through the Lego education line - stuff like the community workers set: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?CategoryID=169&by=9&ID=420&c=1&t=0&l=0

or some of the Duplo people stuff like the "world people" set: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?CategoryID=155&by=9&ID=1370&c=1&t=0&l=0

I was also looking for Mindstorms NXT parts and found this site: LegoEducation.com. It has an expansion kit as well as individual motors and sensors.

I hope this helps,
      Hunter

I was also looking for Mindstorms NXT parts and found this site: LegoEducation.com. It has an expansion kit as well as individual motors and sensors.

I hope this helps,
      Hunter

I enjoy working with my Mindstorms set, but I've run into a serious limitation. The parts that come with the Mindstorms kit just aren't sufficient for building anything cool. The Technic sets are long gone. The best I could figure is that I'd have to buy a whole lot of Mindstorms to get enough gears, shafts, and standard bricks to build anything really nifty. Obviously cost prohibitive, but at least I'd have a lot of RCX bricks.

Not knowing how acurate the photo is in the article, it appears that they may have started moving even the Mindstorms from the standards of the Technics sets.

I enjoy working with my Mindstorms set, but I've run into a serious limitation. The parts that come with the Mindstorms kit just aren't sufficient for building anything cool. The Technic sets are long gone. The best I could figure is that I'd have to buy a whole lot of Mindstorms to get enough gears, shafts, and standard bricks to build anything really nifty. Obviously cost prohibitive, but at least I'd have a lot of RCX bricks.

Not knowing how acurate the photo is in the article, it appears that they may have started moving even the Mindstorms from the standards of the Technics sets.

I would higly recommend the Lego Mindstorms systems (there's now a new version) They are loads of fun and teach programming at many different levels. There are organized competitions where you try to program your robot to accomplish various challenges. The programming starts easy, but can be quite involved. And it's the old, "I'm having fun and don't realize I'm learning". The hard part for us adults is making sure we don't hog them and actually let the kids play with them. Link: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/SearchResult.as px?pl=7

http://www.legoeducation.com/store/SearchResult.as px?pl=7

Of course you can...

They used to be called "Pitsco-Lego-Dacta", but apparently (recently?) they spun off their Lego Educational stuff into a separate site and store (Pitsco sells a lot of science educational stuff, not just Lego) - and finally, you can buy the blue tanks (for the pneumatics)!!!