R.J. McNamara built this great Mindstorms bottle opener: I decided to tackle building LEGO Mindstorms NXT Bottle Openers… The task turned out to be somewhat more difficult than I envisioned. The most difficult part by far was the Gripper Mechanisms, as they had to securely hold the Bottle and it’s cap in a manner that […]
Lego builder Yaya Lu created a prototype voice-controlled wheelchair out of Lego Mindstorms NXT elements, along with such 3rd party add-ons as Rotacaster omniwheels and a Dexter Industriues NXTBee module. One of the problems with voice command systems is that the voice commands will be different for each of the approximately 7,000 languages used on […]
University of Cambridge students researching synthetic bone tissue use LEGO MINDSTORMS to automate the generation of new tissue samples. Repeatedly dipping a sample into various solutions builds up the compound to be tested, which is something perfectly suited to for automation.
It’s hard, for me, to find books that really justify themselves, and when my colleague John Baichtal asked me to review The Cult of LEGO, his recent survey of adult Lego fandom with BrickJournal founder Joe Meno, I was nervous. The Cult of LEGO, I can report with some relief, is well worth its weight in words.
This is “Harry,” a hermit crab who lives in a rock pool at Legoland Windsor, sporting a brightly colored shell custom made from Lego elements by the staff, who emphasize that Harry was not forced to endorse their product, choosing his new home over the traditional seashells that were offered alongside it of his own free will.
AFOL Simon Primordial Greeble of Toronto, ON, built this sweet depiction of Asimov’s legendary Three Laws: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict […]
Joey Johnston of Starkville, MS, wrote in with this well-done Lego model spelling out a worthy motto: Never Stop Making. He built it for his typography class at Mississippi State.
