Thirty-two builders took 5.3m LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to assemble this X-wing starfighter, unveiled yesterday in NYC’s Times Square. It will be on view there for a few more days before heading to California for permanent install at LEGOLAND.
Italian maker and sound producer Giuseppe Acito returns with his robot percussion band by combining LEGO Bionicle bots, Arduino Uno, and an iPad MIDI sequencer app.
Pierre Villeneuve attached five hobby servos to a Lego model, controlled with a motor control board board and a RasPi. This is a nice way of controlling a Lego robot without needing to use Lego’s robotics components! I initially tried to control my servos directly from the Raspberry Pi through its GPIO ports using the […]
Lego robotics engineer Akiyuki is rightly famed for his amazing Great Ball Contraptions (GBCs), including this sick 17-module arrangement he has in his home. One of his latest modules is this great 6-headed hydra that snags balls and delivers them to the next stage. I love it!
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 Star Wars Days.
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 built into Lego’s motors. You can preorder the board on Boardzoo and they also have a version with terminals blocks.
How many times can you assemble two LEGO bricks together before they wear out? Phillipe Cantin decided to find out.
