Collaborate Disseminate
You know what’s not fun? Sorting LEGO. You know what is fun? Making a machine to sort LEGO! That’s what [LegoSpencer] did, and you can watch the machine do its …read more Continue reading Making a Machine to Sort One Million Pounds of LEGO
It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again …read more Continue reading Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy
Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about steam power? We have all …read more Continue reading Making Steam-Powered LEGO Machines
There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, with the DVD logo screensaver of a DVD player being a good …read more Continue reading Building the DVD Logo Screensaver with LEGO
If there’s one thing that has come to define the generations after the baby boom, it’s probably nostalgia. It’s heavily marketed and weaponized by the market: yearning for better, simpler …read more Continue reading 10″ LEGO Tyre is Practical Nostalgia
Lego’s Technic line features all kinds of mechanical devices, from cogs to gears to chains and even pneumatic components. However, the vast majority of these components are made out of …read more Continue reading There Are Better Lego-Compatible Universal Joints Out There
If you need a seven-segment display for a project, you could just grab some LED units off the shelf. Or you could build something big and electromechanical out of Lego. …read more Continue reading Mechanical 7-Segment Display Combines Servos And Lego
If you need a seven-segment display for a project, you could just grab some LED units off the shelf. Or you could build something big and electromechanical out of Lego. …read more Continue reading Mechanical 7-Segment Display Combines Servos And Lego
Here is a hacker showing off their engineering chops. This video shows successive design iterations for a LEGO vehicle which can cross increasingly large gaps. At the time of writing …read more Continue reading Making a LEGO Vehicle Which Can Cross Large Gaps
I had to bust out Brain Salad Surgery to write this one, folks. It was that, or put on some Ministry or something. Just look at all the industrial-ness dripping …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the H.R. Giger Keyboard