Topic: LEGO - on April 25, 2011 at 6:34:00 PM CEST
Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks
Back in August of 2009, I blogged about having an idea of making a 4×5 out of LEGO bricks. Ten days later I’d made some serious progress on it. I started with trying to use the LEGO builder App on the computer to spec it out before I built it, but my mind wouldn’t work like that, so I threw that out and borrowed a metric tonne of LEGOs from my friend Gregory. I made a couple of rounds of prototypes that proved to work well enough for my mind to think Hello World / proof of concept. Fast forward a bit and I got really busy and left the project sitting on a desk for just ages. A big hitch in the progress, other than being busy, was that I’d built just enough of the camera to realize I had to rebuild the main body to accomodate the film holder—a part I’d forgotten to plan for.
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Topic: LEGO - on June 3, 2010 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
The genius of the Lego Printer
Let’s be clear on one thing: Lego is brilliant. The block-based toy started life in Denmark and, since its current design was patented in January 1958, over 400 billion of the little plastic bricks have been produced.
We assumed that this simple toy would never go hand-in-hand with computers, but we’ve been proved wrong by a particularly inventive member of the B3ta forums. While the site is normally full of offensive pictures and jokes that Frankie Boyle wouldn’t tell, this show of ingenuity is guaranteed to put a smile on your face: by combining the diminutive plastic bricks with a Mac and a felt-tip pen, he’s built a fully-functioning Lego printer:
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Topic: LEGO - on November 24, 2009 at 10:02:00 AM CET
The Ultimate Lego Bong
This is a lego bong that is 31/2ft tall and it took me about a week to make it in this video I demonstrate how good the lego bong smokes by takin a few hits out of it.
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Topic: LEGO - on October 11, 2009 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Zombie Apocafest 2009
Zombie Apocafest 2009 has come and gone. The undead have been blown up, shot up, and mulched to oblivion. The humans stand victorious among the ruins of their civilization. Fortunately, that civilization was, by good fortune, built from LEGO, and it can be rebuilt, brick by little plastic brick.
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Topic: LEGO - on October 6, 2009 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Lego Augmented Reality
Yesterday we found ourselves at a Lego Store and stumbled across one of their augmented reality kiosks. The premise is simple and awesome: hold up a box in front of a camera and a 3-D representation of the fully assembled model is projected on top of the box. You can rotate the box and the model moves with it.
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Topic: LEGO - on October 4, 2009 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
LEGO gadgets
many unofficial LEGO gadgets have been on the market for some time now, but next month will see LEGO themselves release a digital camera and MP3 player developed together with digital blue.
LEGO worked with the atlanta-based company who specialize in children's tech-products for a range of gadgets that includes walkie talkies, boomboxes, alarm clocks as well.
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Topic: LEGO - on July 27, 2009 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
Top Gear star to build Lego house
Top Gear presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house in Surrey - made entirely out of Lego bricks.
As part of his BBC series James May's Toy Stories, he plans to build a two-storey house in the middle of the Denbies Wine Estate, in Dorking.
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Topic: LEGO - on April 12, 2009 at 6:55:00 PM CEST
Swedish church unveils Lego Jesus statue for Easter
Churchgoers had donated nearly 30,000 Lego bricks to build the 1.78 metre (5.8 foot) high statue, said Per Wilder, the pastor of the Oensta Gryta Church in Vaesteras, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) west of Stockholm.
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Topic: LEGO - on January 16, 2009 at 4:35:00 PM CET
The Obama Inauguration: Lego-Style
Obama fever has officially hit Legoland. The Carlsbad, CA, park has modified its U.S. Capitol model to illustrate the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. The display opens to the public tomorrow, Jan. 16, and will stay on through Memorial Day. Photos by Christopher Victorio.
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Topic: LEGO - on January 13, 2009 at 1:17:33 PM CET
Lego Optical Illusion Collection
Few more LEGO impossible structures for you! I have yet again included all the Lego illusions I could find on my computer. Some are better, some are mediocrity, and some of them hardly deserve to be included. It's up to you to decide which one of these photos wins over the competition.
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Topic: LEGO - on January 12, 2009 at 12:53:56 PM CET
Lego for adults
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Topic: LEGO - on November 1, 2008 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Giant LEGO Figure Appears On Beach
A giant LEGO minifig maxifig washed up on the beach of Brighton, England a few days ago, and nobody knows where the hell he came from.
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