LEGO headphones
Check out this rockin’ pair of LEGO headphones from Instructables user =D.
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Make: Kids: Lego project roundup
There’s a not-very-secret secret about Lego — adults like ’em just as much as kids do! So while we’ve assembled our ten favorite Lego inventions in honor of the month’s theme Make: Kids, all the projects are by adults. #10 Lego RC hand with exoskeletal controller #9 Lego NXT R/C boat #8 Lego Classic Space […]
Tattooed Lego minifigs
This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs. In any case, any kind of super-fine-point permanent maker would probably work. [via Boing Boing]
Droid controlled MultiCuber 777 solves 7x7x7 V-Cube
The ARM powered Motorola Droid controlled LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot called MultiCuber 777 solves a 7x7x7 V-CUBE 7 in 38 minutes 54 seconds.
Monster NXT robot
This monster robot, according to the NXTStep, packs 9 NXT bricks controlling 16 Power Functions motors. Sweet!
Greeble-tastic Lego robot arms
Personally, I find the mark of a really gifted Lego artist is that his or her work makes you look twice and say, “Wait, that’s made out of Lego?” Renowned English builder Peter Reid (aka Flickr user legoloverman) consistently achieves that effect, for me, by obsessively permutating all those little Lego odds and ends that aren’t shaped like conventional bricks or plates at all–minifig arms, hands, and tools; Technic elements; pneumatic hose connectors; etc. These arms are part of a recent “assembly line” diorama of a future factory assembling his iconic “Turtle” robots. [via The Brothers Brick]
How-To: Restore the color of old Lego bricks
Turns out the yellowing of old ABS plastic is due to degradation of bromine-containing fire retardants which are added to the plastic during manufacture, which release elemental bromine, causing the yellow color. Shining UV light on the gel accelerates the decomposition of the fragile oxygen-oxygen bond in the peroxides it contains, generating reactive hydroxyl radicals which scavenge the free or loosely-bound bromine in the plastic that causes discoloration.
