Italian maker and sound producer Giuseppe Acito returns with his robot percussion band by combining LEGO Bionicle bots, Arduino Uno, and an iPad MIDI sequencer app.
Posted by Nick Normal | Thursday May 23rd, 2013 10:55 AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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