Lego Mindstorms, a Kindle, and a laptop combine into an art project that is an automated system for scanning e-books and creating DRM-free versions. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

The movie starts from the box with "amazonkindle" written up. DIY kindle scanner is installed on the MacBook Pro so that it holds the Kindle. DIY kindle scanner is connected to MINDSTORMS, and "Kindle ...

Consider a book sitting on a shelf. You can lend it out to a friend, you don’t need a special device to read it, and if you are so inclined, you can photocopy it. This isn’t true with Kindle eBooks ...

In another episode of “Sticking It To The Man Through Lego” we present a spider that manually clicks through the pages of a Kindle book and then signals a computer to take a picture of the e-ink ...

Vienna University of Technology professor Peter Purgathofer has devised a way to scan Kindle e-books using nothing more than Lego Mindstorms and cloud-based software for optical character recognition, ...