LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT can be pre-ordered in a couple weeks! – “Place your orders! Beginning Saturday, April 1, you can place an advance order to guarantee receipt of one of the highly anticipated new LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sets when they release in August. A limited quantity of NXT toolsets will be available for pre-order through […]
The TechEBlog has a round up of the “top 10 strangest LEGO creations”, some have appeared on MAKE, others are new (to me) check’em out! – [via] Link. Pictured here, the LEGO knitting machine – Link. Related: See our not-so-strange (well, we think they’re quite sane) LEGO projects – Link. Blockheads by Bob Parks Lego: […]
Zor0 writes – “I just finished this little project (a LEGO South pointing chariot) very fun device. After I was done i did some googling and it turns out I wasn’t the first to try it, but its still an awesome idea. The south pointing chariot was first invented by Chinese Emperor Huang Di in […]
Nathan writes – “Working feverishly at the 2006 Carrier Convention I built a functioning replica of Carrier’s newest air conditioner, complete with the compressor, valves and working fan. It took every hour of both days of the convention, but in the end I was happy with the result. And with that spinning fan, wow, what […]
Open Circuits is a wiki for sharing electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, and parts libraries. So far 39 articles have been submitted – let’s see if this takes off! Link. Pictured here, circuit diagram from the 24″ Wall Clock on the wiki.
Here’s a LEGO based system that will always keep a ball on a table – Kenn writes – “This website describes my project to build a functioning ball and plate (B&P) system out of legos. While it’s not perfect, it does work and I can send the ball where ever I want without fear of […]
Here are scenes from some old favorites, like Duck Hunt, recreated in LEGO. [via] Link.
