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At the beginning of March this year LEGO released their new SMART brick, which looks like a 2×4 stud brick and is filled to the brim with sensors, LEDs, NFC …read more Continue reading Teardown of a 2026 LEGO SMART Brick
Lego train sets have been available for decades, now. The Danish manufacturer long ago realized the magic of combining its building block sets with motors and plastic rails to create …read more Continue reading How I 3D Printed My Own Lego-Compatible Train Bridges
Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of the game made it possible for [Joost van …read more Continue reading LEGO Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe Without Electronics
The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on …read more Continue reading Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego
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There’s just something delightful about scaled items. Big things shrunk down, like LEGO’s teeny tiny terminal brick? Delightful. Taking that terminal brick and scaling it back to a full-sized computer? …read more Continue reading LEGO Space Computer Made Full Size, 47 Years On
Although [Jamie’s Brick Jams] has made many far more complicated motor design in the past, it’s nice to go back to the basics and make a motor that uses as …read more Continue reading Building the Most Simple Motor in Mostly LEGO
Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it …read more Continue reading Lego Typewriter Writes Plastic Letters
LEGO unveiled Smart Play at CES 2026, embedding interactive tech into bricks. The first Star Wars sets launch March 1, with preorders Jan. 9.
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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