Build! A stop-motion Lego flick
BUILD! is a brickfilm created by David Pagano and Matt Witham. Nicely done, guys! (Didn’t embed the video because we’re experience migration difficulties…)
Fun & Games
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Badass LEGO Guns (and ammo)
Lego for Adults author Martin Martin Hüdepohl’s new book Badass LEGO® Guns walks you through illustrated step-by-step instructions to build five real working guns. These aren’t your average lego shooters, but rather highly stylized tactical “weaponry” rendered using LEGO Technic components.
DIY Lego/Ikea table
Via Ikea Hackers: Quentin of Bordeaux, France, covered a Ramvik table with a Lego design he created, with bricks ordered from Lego’s Pick-a-Brick service.
Take a tour of the Arduino… but watch your step
engineerzero was kind enough to give a guided tour of a ginormous Arduino Uno to a handful of faceless Google SketchUp denizens recently. Highlights of the tour included a short stroll down Power Street to Analog Alley, where many different kinds of sensors can be connected. The group also had the incredible opportunity to see […]
Lego ghost trap replica
Flickr user Alex Eylar made this amazing LEGO replica of a Ghostbusters ghost trap. If you’re not familiar with this this piece of equipment, the site Ghostbusters Fans has a primer for you. No word yet if Alex plans on making a matching Ecto Containment Unit. [via Gizmodo] More: Ghostbusters proton pack with friggin’ lasers […]
Turn a mouse pad into an Ardunio-controlled drum pad
Our friend Riley Porter, of Synthetos and TinyG fame, has posted a wonderful little project on Make: Arduino and Make: Projects. It uses an old mouse pad and a piezo sensor to create a drum pad input device. He’s even coded up the beginnings of a little game in Processing that counts your beats and […]
New PS3 firmware hacked within hours
New PS3 firmware hacked within hours… Hackers have already moved to crack open new PS3 firmware that’s not even been out for a day. Sony released a new firmware update (version 3.56) last night that it said “adds a security patch” to the console – the firm’s first move to shut out hackers since the […]