Pierre Villeneuve attached five hobby servos to a Lego model, controlled with a motor control board board and a RasPi. This is a nice way of controlling a Lego robot...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday May 21st, 2013 10:46 AM
Categories: Robotics, Raspberry Pi | No Comments
Polish Lego builder piotrek839 built this sick robot arm that packs some pretty impressive functionality. It’s remote controlled and uses a whopping 12 Power Functions motors and linear actuators to...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday May 16th, 2013 2:00 PM
Lego builder James Pegrum explores Britain’s elite codebreaking facility in brick form! 1944AD 1st June, Bletchley Park, England. The improved Colossus Mark 2 starts working in time for the Normandy...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday May 15th, 2013 9:30 AM
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Smithsonian Magazine has a great piece about Lego’s influence on future engineers via its MIndstorms robotics set, and kids’ exposure to basic engineering principles while participating in First Lego League...
Posted by John Baichtal | Sunday May 12th, 2013 12:11 PM
Categories: Robotics, Education | No Comments
Lego robotics engineer Akiyuki is rightly famed for his amazing Great Ball Contraptions (GBCs), including this sick 17-module arrangement he has in his home. One of his latest modules is...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday May 3rd, 2013 8:09 AM
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Lego builder Matt “Monsterbrick” Armstrong rebuilt a Lego 10225 (a 2,000-piece R2-D2 model) in black and gold to create R2-Pi, the Death Star astrodroid. It will be featured at Legoland...
Posted by John Baichtal | Saturday April 27th, 2013 2:18 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 1 Comment
CircuitCo’s Motor Cape with NXT allows you to control up to 8 Mindstorms motors with a BeagleBone microcontroller. Alas, the board doesn’t accept data from sensors or from the encoders...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 8:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Electronics | No Comments
How many times can you assemble two LEGO bricks together before they wear out? Phillipe Cantin decided to find out.
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Wednesday April 17th, 2013 4:35 PM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, Science | 11 Comments
PG52′s Lego Spirograph (website is in French) sports four speeds for the board rotation and four for the arms. I love the complicated gearbox that enables the whole operation to...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday April 16th, 2013 6:08 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Art & Design | 2 Comments
This Mindstorms paddleboat was built by Mike and Cedric of the OSZT school in Täuffelen, Switzerland. Looks like it sports a regular Lego ship base with soda bottles as pontoons....
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday April 12th, 2013 1:00 PM
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Arthur Sacek‘s lathe works on floral foam. A project he has been working on since 2005, Arthur recently rebuilt the lathe using the still-robust RCX microcontroller brick, the precursor to...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday March 27th, 2013 8:30 AM
Categories: Machining, Fun & Games | 9 Comments
Martin Storbeck of Böblingen, Germany, noticed that Ikea’s Bestå cabinet doors looked an awful lot like Lego bricks, so why not decorate them as such to hold his collection of...
Posted by John Baichtal | Sunday March 24th, 2013 6:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Furniture | No Comments
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