Stress Testing Lego
How many times can you assemble two LEGO bricks together before they wear out? Phillipe Cantin decided to find out.
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Lego Mindstorms Paddleboat
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. A pair of paddlewheels spin along the side. Nicely done!
BrickPi Controls Mindstorms Bots With a RasPi
Dexter Industries builds Lego Mindstorms add-on sensors and other compatible products, and their latest project — not yet completed — is the BrickPi, which allows the Pi to control up to 3 Mindstorms motors and four sensors (but not the ultrasonic). The board’s firmware is written in Arduino 1.0. If you’re interested in the source, […]
Lego Mindstorms Lathe
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 the soon-to-be-replaced NXT brick. [via The NXT Step]
Ikea Cabinets Transformed Into Lego Storage
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 actual Legos? Martin created a slideshow showing how he made the doors — spoiler: with coasters as the Lego studs. [via Ikea Hackers]
Lego Technic Strandbeest
Singapore Lego builder Lee Ping Ng’s strandbeest scuttles very lobsterlike. And it has personality as well!
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Lego Apple ][+
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 see his Brickshelf page.