Giles Turnbull @ The Morning News has a fun article about the family Nomenclature for LEGO… He writes – It’s a scene that is replayed by kids and parents everywhere. And it’s the starting point for a unique quirk of language: Lego nomenclature. Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing […]
Restrictive homeowners’ association preventing you from building your entire house out of LEGO? To help convince them of the importance of the brick, why not start by building a LEGO kitchen, like this one from designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosett. While not made entirely of lego (there is a fiberboard counter underneath the brick), […]
Stretta managed to build a fully functional (and apparently quite fun) foosball table from LEGO parts – My son is really attracted to foosball tables, and, if I’m honest, I’d have to say I am too. I considered the idea of buying a small, tabletop unit, but I was unsure how much use it’d see. […]
OK, Jay, this clip takes a bit of set-up. Basically, it’s a model of a factory-floor machine for moving pallet around a square assembly line. You put a pushing arm at each corner of the square and trigger them alternately in caddy-corner pairs. S
It’s like a pop-up book, kind of, except way more complicated and expensive and made of Lego elements by YouTube user talapz. Words fail me, too. [via The Brothers Brick]
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Eric Chu, engineering intern Let’s admit it. We’ve all had thoughts of building our own robot of mass destruction. Well, I was able to do just that for […]
There’s almost nothing that makes me as happy as a little Lego entrepreneurship. Remember BrickArms? Well, now there’s ChromeBricks, which will custom electroplate Lego elements of your choice, in your choice of gold, chrome, or copper. [via The Brothers Brick]
