To rejoice the 10th centenary of LEGO Mindstorms and this is a collection of professors, middle-school students, and shared nerds will be introduction quite a few Mindstorms robots into near-space. The sky-scraping height Mindstorms Robots project will be set robots aloft in an impressive weather balloon soon before dawn this morning exterior of Reno, Nevada. At about 100,000 feet the balloon will be rupture and robots will be parachute back to terra firma collect data and photographs along way. One robot named Lil’ Joe will be effort a world record free-fall honest before deploy its parachute on a pre-programmed schedule.

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