Lego’s Smart Brick: A Toy for Hackers or a Trap for Creativity?

Lego’s Smart Brick is a $84 question mark: Will it unlock a new era of creativity or trap it in a paywalled maze?

Positioned as a Raspberry Pi-like open platform, Lego’s Smart Brick has sparked debates about its technical scope and potential limitations.

Casey Newton of Platformer highlighted productivity tools like Capacities and Claude Code during the same discussion, while the episode also addressed e-reader upgrades and user data retention challenges.

These segments framed the broader tension between innovation and control in consumer technology.