YouTube user GusJanss made an awesome Mindstorms walker that uses only 3 NXT servos to move six legs. Nice hack! The Hexapod Walker is a six legged LEGO NXT robot walker. It uses a gait that causes very little slippage at the feet so can walk well with rubber tipped feet all the way around. […]
Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube solvers are a dime a dozen, but David Gilday’s bot offers two cool twists (sorry) — first, it solves a 4×4 cube rather than the classic, ordinary 3×3 cube. Second, and cooler, rather than relying on the NXT Intelligent Brick to do the heavy lifting, it uses a Nokia N95 mobile phone […]
As soon as the iPad was announced, Lego fans wondered what it would look like in brick form. Check out the homage by Joe Meno, editor of AFOL bible BrickJournal.
Ed Diment is working on a minifig-scale aircraft carrier. The picture above shows an anti-aircraft battery — imagine the detail on the entire ship! The USS Intrepid is an Essex Class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy (USN). She is currently berthed in New York and serves as a museum, but had an operational […]
Kenney was featured in a Japanese public television show, New York Wave. The crew followed me for several months and created this full-length episode that shows how I work and what I do. Watch as I create a giant LEGO model of Times Square, play with kids at events, and take on my biggest project […]
The model itself is extremely sophisticated. It packs, among its other components, a HiTechnic gyro sensor, presumably to help it stay vertical, Segwaylike. As an added bonus, the video itself is very slick and engaging. Both are the work of Greek Lego fan NeXTSTORM. [via TheNXTStep]
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