In the Lego world, cheese slopes are 1×1 smooth plates with an angled top. Katie Walker (whose Lego mosaics have appeared on MAKE before) shows you how she assembles her creations in this Cheese Slope Mosaic Tutorial on MosaicBricks. [via The Brothers Brick]
UK based band Camp America have just released an album that comes with a limited edition LEGO CD case that you can build yourself! This is the regular CD in a cardboard sleeve, plus you will receive a bag containing 125 LEGO pieces, and instructions for building your own CD case! (This one is for […]
Very cool idea from Dan over at adafruit: Use an OLED display module to create working scale train schedules, plane schedules, TVs, or other scale flat-panel displays for your Lego models
This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI’s exposition “Turings Erfenis” in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth on 23 June 1912. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who […]
I saw this great video on the Flickr blog this morning. Apparently this is based on the Covenant Assault Carrier from the HALO game series. Ben Caulkins, or Benny Brickster on Flickr, has some amazing Lego creations. Notably, his Portal series, Tranformers, and more Lego HALO pieces. The Six Feet Assault Carrier More: Lego Mindstorms Submarine […]
This Mindstorms submarine (a.k.a., the Grey November) keeps the NXT microcontroller brick safe inside a plastic bag! [via The NXT Step]
Paul Vermeesch’s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foot cube and contains scenes from classic Star Wars settings. Six months in the making, I present my largest creation to date: a 1x1x1 foot model of M.C. Escher’s print “Relativity” reenacted in the Lego Star Wars theme. A far larger, cleaner, and more detailed rehashing of […]
