Shep’s quad flexpicker packs 6 NXT microcontroller bricks, 22 motors and servos, and 26 sensors and muxes, and takes the form of four delta robots grabbing bricks from a conveyor. The grippers are pneumatic and are controlled via IR signals. So sweet! This system uses four parallel robots which are fed using two conveyor belts. […]
By Flickr user MacLane, for a recent contest on Lego Star Wars enthusiast-site From Bricks to Bothans.
6,000 builders armed with half a million bricks built a Lego tower nine inches higher than a Chilean tower built last fall, topping off at 102 feet, 3 inches. What they don’t tell you is that there’s a metal pole down the middle — visible toward the end of the video — which takes some […]
I’m not sure the Hellraiser franchise is going to adapt as well to Lego as Star Wars did. Still, I’ll be first in line to buy the video game if it ever appears. Many more pics in capnbootle’s photo set. [via The Brothers Brick]
Peer Kreuger loves his Lego models so much he builds specialized dollies and other camera mounts to take pictures of them. His latest, a Quadpod, looks great for recording in adverse conditions.
This build from Julia Morley took “a week of planning, three days of building, a large number of expletives, and some interesting use of very long tools.” And you can enjoy the whole process (minus the expletives, which have been replaced with soothing music) in three minutes of 32X time-lapse bliss here. [via The Brothers Brick]
Cary Norton built this incredible large format camera out of LEGOs and calls it the Legotron, Mark I. The first few photographs Cary took with the camera left him “COMPLETELY FREAKING STOKED” and I understand why: they’re absolutely stunning. The focus range is currently limited to about 3 feet to 18 inches, but he hopes […]
