MAKE » Tag: LEGO

Arduino-Controlled Lego Maglev Vehicle

John Baichtal — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:26 +0000

Team Antipodes, a FIRST robotics team consisting of Emma, Kjersti, and Violet of Terra Nova High School in Pacifica, CA, built this sweet magnetic levitation vehicle.

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Lego Binary Clock

John Baichtal — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:30:06 +0000

Lego builder nxt1engineer created this binary clock. It uses rotating spindles to indicate the passage of time.

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Lego Segway

John Baichtal — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:00:50 +0000

Simon "Burf" Burfield built a Lego wheelchair and now he's tackling a Lego Segway that supports the weight of an adult. His prototype can't self-balance, but does a great job of moving around just with toy motors.

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Lego Code-Cracking Game

John Baichtal — Wed, 29 May 2013 15:45:36 +0000

Lego uberbuilders the Family Vuurzoon built this cool Lego Mindstorms game, the Chinese Dragon’s Pearl, which has players attempt to solve a code to get a “pearl” — even better, there’s an accompanying dragon robot that reacts when you get his pearl! Filed under: Fun & Games, Robotics

5 Million LEGO Brick Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter

Nick Normal — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:45:02 +0000

Thirty-two builders took 5.3m LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to assemble this X-wing starfighter, unveiled yesterday in NYC's Times Square. It will be on view there for a few more days before heading to California for permanent install at LEGOLAND.

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The Toa Mata Drumbots Return

Nick Normal — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:55:56 +0000

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.

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Controlling 5 Servos With a Raspberry Pi

John Baichtal — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:46:49 +0000

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 without needing to use Lego’s robotics components! I initially tried to control my servos directly from the Raspberry Pi through […]

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Lego Technic Artificial Arm

John Baichtal — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000

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 do its thing. You can read about the project on LUGPol, though it’s in Polish. Filed under: Robotics

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Bletchley Park, In Lego

John Baichtal — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:30:08 +0000

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 Landings. The Colossus was the world’s first electronic digital computer that was at all programmable. It was designed by Tommy […]

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Lego Play as Training for Future Engineers

John Baichtal — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:11:36 +0000

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 action: A recent Brandeis University study shows that kids who participate in robotics contests are more than twice as likely […]

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