Who is going to win Lego Santa Yoda with the Santa Claw? WHO WILL IT BE? The person who grabs this special box with special green wrapping paper wins Lego Santa Yoda. Yup. We will send it to you. Happy Sunday! More »
If the only thing standing between you and a full abandonment of physical media is the tedious task of ripping all of your CDs and DVDs, boy have we got the Lego-based gadget for you. Paul Rea whipped up this little beauty — it’s an Arduino-powered Lego arm that swings to pick up a disc, deposit it in the drive and then drop it (perhaps a bit too literally) into a finished pile. It’s not quite perfect — the arm is a bit loud as it moves, and anyone who’s ever owned CDs or DVDs may likely grimace as the thing tosses finished discs into a pile, but it’s an entertaining break from what can ultimately prove an arduous task.
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Nothing catches our collective eye quite as easily as the combination of high technology and childhood toys. Making a play for our man-childhood inclinations today is a Lego-augmented FARO Focus 3D, purportedly the world’s smallest 3D laser scanner yet still able to detect surroundings up to 120 metres away. It can grab a cloud of points, then offer up a detailed three-dimensional model of the environment, with some extra details (thanks to those Lego wheels) that would have been obscured on a static 3D capture. Admittedly, it doesn’t quite have the wow-factor of an all-Lego 3D scanner, but its range (and possible use in forensic crime scene analysis) has kept us intrigued. Check out the video after the break to investigate how you could get your CSI on.
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Trick your kids into tidying up with this OCD-friendly Lego brick sorter
Like every human child, I loved Lego. And like every human being ever, I hate tidying up. So the Box4Blox would have been just about the second best gift I could have received when I was small. Box4Blox is a simple sifter that sorts your lego blocks by size.
It works by grading the bricks. Of the four layers, three have holes in the bottom which only let through a certain size of brick. As you go lower, the holes get smaller, so you end up with similar-sized bricks stored together.
The best part is that you can trick your kid into tidying up. We all know children like to make noise and shake things. The Box4Blox lets them do both at the same time.
The Box4Blox holds up to 1,700 pieces, and goes for $40. A small price to pay for a tidy living room.
Box4Blox product page [Box4Blox via Chris Scott Barr]
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Want to make this Lego DeLorean BTTF set a reality? Lego is finally crowdsourcing designs with its new Cuusoo platform; it’s basically a Lego Kickstarter. Here are our favorite Lego dreams—let’s help bring ’em to life. More »
CubeStormer I was pretty cool, we guess, but that was way back in 2010. Now we’re all about CubeStormer II. Built by Mike Dobson and David Gilday, the puzzle-cracking robot is capable of solving Rubik’s Cubes at blazing fast speeds, shaving precious fractions of seconds off of human world records. The ‘bot was constructed from four Lego Mindstorms NXT kits, with our old pal the Samsung Galaxy S II serving as the its “brain.” CubeStormer will be making a public appearance at ARM TechCon 2011 in California, later this month (and really, the whole thing seems like a bit of an ad for ARM — albeit a really awesome one). In the meantime, check out some video of it in action after the break.
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Sneakers. Back to the Future. Lego. What more do you want?
You probably can’t decide which is worse: That you can’t afford a pair of Nike Mags, or that Nike finally made Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II shoes, but still couldn’t be bothered to give them self-lacing closures.
Lack of funds didn’t stop Alex Jones. He decided he had to have a Nike Mag, so he did what any self-respecting nerd would — he built one from Lego. And not only did he render the sneaker in plastic bricks, he managed to add the glowing lights of the movie original, and even to make a section of Marty’s hover-board for it to sit on.
It’s funny. It wasn’t until I saw Alex’s rendering of the board that I realized just how 1980s-looking is this view of 2015. It’s like the old fifties sci-fi movies filled with spaceships that look like quaint, retro diner-kitsch today.
Alex aka Orion Pax isn’t selling his plastic shoe, nor is he offering instructions for download. If you want one of these, you’re going to have to dig through your Lego box and work it out yourself.
NIKE MAG BTTF [Flickr via Brothers Brick]
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Lego’s Life of George marries a video game with real life. Sweet
Life of George is kind of like backwards Tron, only with Lego. Backwards Tron because it takes something already inside a computer and takes it out, and Lego because, well, it uses Lego.
The worst part of the game is its dull name. The best part is everything else. It works like this: The game throws up a picture of a Lego model on the iPhone’s screen, along with a ticking countdown. The player picks up the supplied bricks and copies the on-screen model as quickly as possible. He then snaps a photo of his creation (placed on a special background mat) and the game compares real life with simulation, awarding points. Check it:
Players can also make their own models and photograph them, whereupon they enter into the computer like real, forward-playing Tron.
Annoyingly, the Lego set is U.S-only, which counts out players in the home of Lego. The set will cost $30 and be in stores on October 1st, and the game is already available in the app store, for free.
Life of George product page [Lego]
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Though some may argue that Lego is something only kids should play with, we here at Geek think the magic of Lego bricks should be something people of all ages can enjoy. After raving about such Lego masterpieces as the world’s first fully functional Lego greenhouse, Lego robot hands, and a Lego machine that can […]
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