Congratulations to Lego hacker sren2000 for this brilliant loom. I’m building some Mindstorms robots right now and sren2000’s work blows me away with its sophistication. [Thanks to Shep at Tinkernology for linking to sren2000’s Lego pen plotter, which is also great!]
Over at Made by Joel, the eponymous author’s son just acquired a noble knight made by Lego with a moveable arm for pretend sword-fighting. Not one to be excluded, Joel made his own version from wood, and the two staged an epic battle on video.
By Lish Dorset When I was in elementary school reading The Indian in the Cupboard, I was fascinated with the book’s cover art. I stared – probably when I should have been reading in class – for hours at the cupboard the figurines lived in and wondered which of my toys I’d put in there. […]
OK, so, they only have five leaves each, and the actual stuff on the pages is not made of Lego elements, but c’mon: Among challenging subjects to model in Lego, surely a functional book is near the top of the list. But then, we’ve pretty much come to to expect that sort of thing from artist Guy Himber, whose masterful MOCs we’ve featured here many times before.
CD duplicators are a great way to make a small batch of CDs. Commercial units cost around $500, can be finicky, and usually come with some weird proprietary software. Maker Paul Rea wanted something a little less restrictive and cost conscious, so he built one out of LEGO and an Arduino. At least if it becomes temperamental, he’ll probably have a bucket of spare parts handy.
FIRST® LEGO League @Google This is cool to see, imagine if every “tech company” hosted a LEGO league in some way? The kids at these events today, are the engineers of tomorrow…
As Lego-based cube solvers proliferate, they tend to use PCs or cell phones to do the actual solving of the puzzle, with Lego motors and sensors for the rest. David Gilday’s MindCuber uses only those elements found in a Mindstorms set, and with a sub-2-minute average solve time, still packs impressive results. [Via the NXT […]
