This clever NXT robot detects the number of players at the table and deals them their hands face down, then when prompted at the conclusion of each round of betting deals the flop, turn and river cards face up. More information — mostly in German — available on Google Code. [Via The NXT Step]
Interesting concept from Thingiverse user zanew. “Studs” is pretty self-explanatory; I think “bricks” means the vertical height of a brick. That side should be subdivided in “plates,” methinks.
Teaming up with technology company Metaio, an augmented reality system was devised, called the Lego Digital Box. LDB allowed any Lego box to be held up to a screen in store and the finished product displayed sitting on top of it.
A company called Lunatic Construction sells giant Lego-esque bricks made out of expanded propylene for use as furniture. They have 3 different shapes of bricks available in 7 colors. Plus they offer clear or pearlescent ABS, metal, as well as light-up versions. [Via Inhabitat]
A fully functional Lego NXT Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) with change making capability. The machine is built 100% from Lego parts plus a HiTechnic IRLink and a Codatex RFID Sensor. The machine is programmed in Not eXactly C (NXC) and has the following features…  Bill scanner can be calibrated to accept any type of […]
Anyway, among the many interesting discoveries I’ve made there was a link to the Brick Wishlist Flickr pool, which is a collection of doodles, diagrams, and renderings, made by Lego fans, of elements they wished existed, but do not. These “requests” range from simple color options (as in user d-higdon’s “fall colors” idea for the “leaves” element (#2417), currently available only in green) to what would be, for Lego, anyway, fairly radical departures, like plates with studs on both sides.
My favorite Lego blog, The Brothers Brick, is running an extended series of posts eulogizing nnenn, and this line jumped out at me: “You know a builder is big-time when he not only gets an entire scale named after him, but an element as well.” Nnenn also pioneered the iconic Vic Viper design (based on the video game Gradius), a classic example of which is shown above. Entire contests have been dedicated to Vic Vipers, and hundreds, probably thousands, of variants on the theme exist. Plans are in place for a “missing man formation” of Vic Vipers to be arranged in memory of nnenn at the Brickworld 2010 fan convention in Chicago. I’ve included just a couple more of my favorite nnenn creations below.
