Just what you need to speed up your D&D sessions! The mission: To make an absurdly overcomplicated robot to do something as simple as roll some dice. It’s sort of a Rube Goldberg machine although for the sake of practicality there’s buttons to control the throwing and then the picking back up again so that […]
This work from Korean Kyoung-bae Na, aka edulyoung, would be impressive as a static Lego model. As a flapping-wings automaton, it is, I daresay, magnificent. Kyoung-bae Na has a BrickLink storefront as Studio Amida, but the Pegasus Automaton is not listed there as of this writing.
KGroce of Tennessee wrote in to share this sweet projector, built by Friedemann Wachsmuth: A fully functional Super 8 Movie Projector I built with Kalle using Lego Technic. The only non-Lego parts are the lens, the reel spindles and the lamp. The projector uses just two engines and is fully featured with automatic feeding, […]
The Brothers Brick Lego website has a fascinating post by Ben Caulkins, who spent 6 months building Master Chief armor completely out of Lego. (I)t was after I saw some really amazing LEGO creations at my first LEGO convention, Brickworld, that I really seriously started thinking about it. At first it was just a fantasy, […]
Mike Brandl’s Globe Plotter can draw the shapes of the continents on a white ball. For this robot the coordinates of the continents were prepared as a zigzag line, drawn with a green felt tip pen. After the continents are drawn the robot switches colors from green to black. With this pen the continents are […]
This video from YouTuber akiyuky is close to 8 minutes of heavy duty LEGO automation that will almost certainly suck you in. Colored balls are hurried along the machine using over twenty GBC modules of varying complexity. Watch as they’re swept, shoveled, screwed, and pumped while being sorted, combined and placed on various transport mechanisms.
Love this pinhole camera by Russian maker bshikin; it uses an NXT light sensor to calculate shutter speed, snaps the picture with a servo-operated flap, and tracks remaining film. Complete build notes and LeJOS code at the above link. [Via The NXT Step]
