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In childhood, many of us wondered — wouldn’t it be cool if our miniature toys had “real” functions? Say, that our toy cars actually were able to drive, or at …read more Continue reading Computer-Shaped LEGO Brick Brought To Life
Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to …read more Continue reading How to Use LEGO Bricks for Data Storage
Hackers love 7-segment displays, and will gladly wax lyrical about the silly words you can almost spell on them and so on. Less appreciated are their bigger cousins, the fourteen …read more Continue reading Lego Fourteen-Segment Display Needs Plenty of Motors
C.F. Møller Architects recently completed work on a new Lego Campus office in Billund, Denmark, that boasts impressive sustainability features. Though understandably not as whimsical as BIG’s tourist-friendly Lego House nearby, the building’s design al… Continue reading Sustainable Lego Campus makes space for work and play
Utter the words “7-segment display” amongst hackers and you’ll typically get people envisaging the usual LED and LCD versions that we all come across in our daily lives. However, mechanical …read more Continue reading Building 7-Segment Displays With LEGO
Unless you’re an avid fan of 1997’s box office hit Mouse Hunt, or actively working in the string industry, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how those …read more Continue reading LEGO String Winder Hints At Greater Possibilities
What’s the worst thing about LEGO? Most would agree that it’s the fact that those bright and colorful pieces of ABS are somehow the most evil thing that can come …read more Continue reading LEGO-Sorting Vacuum Defeats the Problem
Twenty Two Motors. Fifty gears. Eighty Two Hundred RPM. Hundreds of individual pieces, and one sheet of glossy paper cut into a disk. This isn’t a nightmare driven Rube Goldberg …read more Continue reading Brick And Motor Table Saw Delivers Paper Cuts On Demand
Wheels are typically just simple cylinders, though fans of I, Robot (2004) may have admired the handsome vehicle featuring ball wheels that was driven by the protagonist. YouTuber [Brick Technology] decided …read more Continue reading Lego Car Demonstrates Proper Use of Ball Wheels
A floor peppered with Lego pieces is a midnight minefield for barefoot parents, but a YouTuber going by “Unnecessary Inventions” has now designed a 3D-printed Shop Vac attachment that allows you to vacuum up lego and have it auto-sorted by size.Continu… Continue reading Lego-filtering vacuum attachment sucks and sorts a floor full of pain