Clenching Lego Hand
Check out this cool Lego Terminator hand that Jason Devine and his sons built, complete with strings that curl the fingers. See the Flickr set for more views and a video of the hand in action.
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Romanian Teenager Puts Space Shuttle Back in Space
On January 5, 2012, Raul Oaida posted the following update to his blog: “On the 31st of December I launched the Black Sky project payload with two HD cameras. I recovered the rig ~240km awaydownrange (320km on the highway) in excellent condition from a hill in a remote area.” About a month later, he posted the embedded video to YouTube. The entry on his blog from that date kinda says it all: “This was all done by me.”
Spray Paint Can, Deconstructed in Lego
Lego builder Cole Blaq, whose exploding paint can model wowed us last year, continues his (apparent) obsession with spray paint cans with Decode, in which a robotic arm apparently tinkers with the guts of a spraycan, the inside of which inexplicably looks like DNA! Be sure to check out the rest of Cole’s Inside the […]
Lego Millennium Falcon, Rendered in 3DS Max
I’ve been deeply immersed in Lego Digital Designer for the past few months, and this sort of project, aside from the sweet assembly animation, could theoretically be done on that platform. However, Francisco Prieto didn’t use LDD. He used design software 3D Studio Max, modeling all of the Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon’s […]
PriNXT, a Functioning Lego Printer
Fourteen-year-old Lego hacker Leon Overweel built this impressive Lego Mindstorms NXT printer, AKA PriNXT. PriNXT has three motors: two control the X and Y motion, and the third lifts the pen. The first motor, the one in the middle, is very straight forward – it has two long axes coming out of it that connect […]
Lego Model Parts on Sprue Made of Lego
I’ve admired the work of UK AFoL Peter Reid, aka Flickr user Legoloverman, for a long time. His turtle model, shown to right, is one of my favorite fan-designed Lego models, ever. It doesn’t use a lot of elements, but they’re very carefully thought out. And now he’s gone and arranged them like pieces of […]
Lego “Broken Heart” Pendant Set
OK, yeah, that’s cute. Incidentally, Lego element #3176, Plate, Modified 3 x 2 with Hole is also available in red. From reddit user spatiality. More:35-lb Lego Heart