Lego builder Matt “Monsterbrick” Armstrong rebuilt a Lego 10225 (a 2,000-piece R2-D2 model) in black and gold to create R2-Pi, the Death Star astrodroid. It will be featured at Legoland...
Posted by John Baichtal | Saturday April 27th, 2013 2:18 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 1 Comment
CircuitCo’s Motor Cape with NXT allows you to control up to 8 Mindstorms motors with a BeagleBone microcontroller. Alas, the board doesn’t accept data from sensors or from the encoders...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 8:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Electronics | No Comments
How many times can you assemble two LEGO bricks together before they wear out? Phillipe Cantin decided to find out.
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Wednesday April 17th, 2013 4:35 PM
Categories: Science, Arduino, Electronics | 11 Comments
PG52′s Lego Spirograph (website is in French) sports four speeds for the board rotation and four for the arms. I love the complicated gearbox that enables the whole operation to...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday April 16th, 2013 6:08 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
This Mindstorms paddleboat was built by Mike and Cedric of the OSZT school in Täuffelen, Switzerland. Looks like it sports a regular Lego ship base with soda bottles as pontoons....
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday April 12th, 2013 1:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
Arthur Sacek‘s lathe works on floral foam. A project he has been working on since 2005, Arthur recently rebuilt the lathe using the still-robust RCX microcontroller brick, the precursor to...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday March 27th, 2013 8:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Machining | 9 Comments
Martin Storbeck of Böblingen, Germany, noticed that Ikea’s Bestå cabinet doors looked an awful lot like Lego bricks, so why not decorate them as such to hold his collection of...
Posted by John Baichtal | Sunday March 24th, 2013 6:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Furniture | No Comments
Singapore Lego builder Lee Ping Ng’s strandbeest scuttles very lobsterlike. And it has personality as well!
Posted by John Baichtal | Saturday March 23rd, 2013 2:00 PM
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Hong Kong builder Chiu-Kueng Tsang built this recreation of an Apple ][+, even detailing the internals! I think that daughter card over there gives it upper and lower case! Also...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday March 19th, 2013 9:40 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 2 Comments
NXTLOG user hknssn13 built this amazing paper airplane machine. My favorite part is the 4th stage, where four linear actuators make the final folds in the airplane. It looks sick...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday March 12th, 2013 8:01 AM
Categories: Robotics, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
Italian maker and sound producer Giuseppe Acito built this robot percussion band by combining LEGO Bionicle bots, an Arduino Uno, and an iPad MIDI sequencer app.
Posted by Nick Normal | Monday March 11th, 2013 10:29 AM
Categories: Electronics, Arduino | 7 Comments
I spent a rather absurd amount of time last summer trying to build my own peristaltic pump — which delivers liquids through a food-safe tube by massaging it. So when...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday February 26th, 2013 5:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Electronics, General | No Comments
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