Mar 26
Hot on the heels of his impressive Lego Leica M9-P and gorgeous bricked Macintosh, Chris McVeigh—aka Flickr’s powerpig—is back with a stunning Lego rendition of the Commodore 64. More »
Mar 25
You’re never going to be a movie star, but with a little luck, maybe your Lego bricks can be. Thanks to a new contest for the upcoming blockbuster, Lego: The Movie, you’ve got a shot at your own 15-30 seconds of vicarious stardom. More »
Mar 24
Simon Burfield should get in touch with Eric Steenstra so they can have a LEGO go-kart race. Burfield used 16 Power Functions XL motors, 8 Power Functions battery packs and 20 Exo-Force wheels to make his life-size go-kart.
It looks less sturdy than Steenstra’s bulky build, but it can carry an adult, as you’ll see in the video below.
I wonder what its top speed is. It probably has, like, 350 MyLittlePonyPower.
[via MAKE]
Mar 22
Lego creation launches paper planes
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Before there was Minecraft, there is Lego, and one cannot deny the fact that Lego has done plenty to kick start the imagination of many a young kid. The thing is, while Minecraft has more or less garnered a loyal following on the computer as well as on the Xbox 360 in addition to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the physical and spiritual predecessor from Denmark, Lego, is still around – and growing from strength to strength, I might add. Lego bricks have long been used in creative ways to exercise the brains of your little ones (and adults alike), so much so that entire theme parks have been built around Lego bricks. Well, the more creative minds do come up with something interesting once in a while, and here we are with this motorized Lego machine. What makes this motorized Lego machine different from the rest is that it can fold paper airplanes, followed by launching them into the air afterwards.
If that is not brilliant, I am not quite sure how else to describe it. The motorized Lego machine is the brainchild of YouTube user “Hknssn,” where this fully-automated machine has its building blocks in a couple of Lego Mindstorms NXT sets and five NXT Servo motors. Measuring 150 centimeters in length and 40 centimeters wide, this machine relies on motorized rollers to pull paper from a tray, followed by rolling it along the system where it has been folded. At the end, you will find a compressor that will help launch the folded paper planes, much to the amusement and wonder for some starry eyed kids.
According to Hknssn, the current design of his Lego device is capable of launching planes up to three meters, although he believes that with some tweaking done, it would be very possible to come up with a model that launches paper planes as far as 10 meters, which would certainly have teachers in school up in arms if every one of their students had one of these in the classroom.
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Mar 21
If you’ve been following Technabob for any time at all, you know that I love LEGO and I love cake. So when I saw that somebody had combined the two with such brilliance, I just had to mention it.
These LEGO minifigs are actually edible cake pops. You know, those little bits of cake that give you just enough of a taste that your sugar addiction kicks into high gear and you need to eat 10 of them?
These cake pops were made by Cake Power Cakes, and they look like they were pretty easy to assemble. They made them by combining cake crumbs and buttercream and pressing it into a pan, then cutting out the cylindrical minifig head shapes and stacked modeling chocolate above and below them on lollipop sticks.
They then coated them in melted yellow candies for the perfect LEGO yellow gloss. Of course the tricky part was painting on all the tiny facial details. Speaking from experience, that takes real talent – especially when working with edibles.
[via Between the Pages]
Mar 21
LEGO is awesome, although kids these days might not be able to appreciate it as much considering that they have more high-tech toys to keep them entertained. However for those who do remember LEGO and still love building things with it, this LEGO Apple II recreation is too cute for words (like the mini LEGO Mac), but we’ll try anyway. Designed by Chiu-Keung Tsang, this LEGO Apple II looks like a pretty spot-on replica of the original computer, but Tsang has decided to go beyond just creating a replica, instead opting to pay attention to the smaller details.
On the surface, like we said, it looks like a fully assembled Apple II computer. However when taken apart, you can see (in the image above) that Tsang has even included details like the innards of a computer, RAM sticks, motherboard and whatnot. Granted you might not be able to distinguish between the mobo and the RAM and hard drive given that they’re just LEGO bricks, but feel free to use your imagination! We’re not sure if Tsang has plans to sell his creation, but if you’d like to check out the rest of the photos, head on over to Tsang’s Flickr for the rest.
[Image credit – Chiu-Keung Tsang]
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Mar 20
If Lego ever decides to build an industrial version of its building toy, there are countless designs outline that would let anyone build their own workshop. Even a computer-guided lathe, thanks to Arthur Sacek’s latest creation that can turn a chunk of foam into a curvaceous creation based on nothing more than an outline sketched onto a piece of paper. More »
Mar 19
With the right number and kinds of Lego bricks, an overactive imagination, as well as plenty of time for execution, you know for sure that humankind can come up with some rather zany Lego “inventions”, and heck, there are even Lego-based theme parks to boot in this world. Well, Simon Liu must have had spent plenty of time behind the computer playing Fallout and its sequels in the past, which was why he decided to use his talent and some Lego bricks to come up with a working Lego Pip-Boy 3000.
The “Pip” in Pip-Boy 3000 stands for “Personal Information Processor” just in case you were wondering, where it functions as the the player’s Heads Up Display (HUD) in the games that Bethesda delivered in the past, namely Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. This Lego replica looks terrifyingly like the real deal, where it comes with a display and an FM radio, in addition to lights that can be manipulated thanks to the Lego knobs that are located on the left side of the unit.
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Mar 19
Over the years, there have been numerous attempts to make motorized shop tools out of LEGO. Now, the guy behind the LEGO 3D milling machine is back with a new creation – a lathe that can create custom forms by tracing a simple outline.
Arthur Sacek actually made his first LEGO lathe back in 2005, and now he’s remade the machine and shared it with the world to enjoy. The machine uses LEGO RCX components (now known as Mindstorms), and can cut cylindrical forms from floral foam using a spinning bit. To make a shape, Arthur loads up a block of foam, then draws a curve profile on a white piece of paper. The system then automatically traces the line and carves the shape from the rapidly-spinning foam. It’s quite impressive in action:
The LEGO motors probably aren’t powerful enough to turn wood, though I wonder if it could handle something soft like balsa.
Mar 19
There’s an unending list of things you can build with Lego, but that doesn’t always mean that you should. Case in point: a safe. As clever as this set of Lego bookends is, with a secret mechanism for popping the door on a hidden safe, it can pretty much be foiled with a three-foot fall to the floor. More »
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