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About a year ago, this impressive Lego set appeared on the Lego Ideas website. It’s a playable version of the old Pong arcade game. It was built by someone who goes by the name of TheBananaman2018.
Inside of the set are 90 gears to control the movement of the ball which bounces back and forth across the playing area. Each player has two controls making the paddle move up and down.
[Read more…]Lego has been popular for many years now. We recently wrote about a Lego inspired mug. Today its time to take a look at the Lego inspired iPhone case.
It is called the BrickCase and is available for both the iPhone 4(S) and iPhone 5. It comes just as the case in 5 different colours which includes black, blue, glow in the dark, green and red. It doesn’t come with the phone (of course), or bricks but is compatible with bricks that are likely in each of your homes.
Many of you will have grown up with Lego and will have built a number of your own creations. One site I’ve seen around recently is Lego Cuusoo which allows you to submit your own Lego creations and have them voted on to see if there’s a chance a set can be actually made.
One of the sets currently on show is a Legend of Zelda: Iron Knuckle Encounter.
If you fancy a cup of hot chocolate in a rather unique looking mug then check out the Build-On Brick Mug. The mug is compatible with LEGO, Pixel Blocks, Mega Blocks, KRE-O and K’NEX style bricks and allows you to attach the said bricks to the Mug to make it unique every single time you drink from it.
One of the latest projects to join Lego Cuusoo is the Jules Verne Train that Doc Brown uses on Back to the Future III. Lego Cuusoo is a place where people can upload their own Lego creations and if they get enough votes, Lego decides if it will build the project in to a real kit and put it out for sale.
The screenshot below is of the LEGO awesome machine. It isn’t clear if that’s the name of the device or if the creator is just referring to it as an awesome machine that is made of LEGO. Either way, it is awesome.
By combining some Lego parts and a computer, one particular guy has managed to create a system that can scan objects in 3D. These 3D objects can then be exported to use in the LDraw software to be used as parts in Lego projects.
The LEGO 3D scanner was built by Phillipe Hurbaine who took care of the software and Lego building to make this project work. To see it in action, check out the video embedded below. [Read more…]
The MakerLegoBot is a robot made of Lego that is capable of printing objects with Lego bricks.
The system was designed and built by the team at BattleBricks and uses Mindstorms NXT computer (three of them) to control the printer. A feed mechanism can be found attached to the side of the device that has the job of holding many bricks which are then grabbed as needed by the system. The bricks are then pushed in to the appropriate plans. The plans themselves are fed in to the NXTs via USB. [Read more…]
When I was a kid (kinda still am depending on who you talk to) I tended to use the little blocks to make spaceships, guns, (not very good) swords and towers. Even now I still like to play around with it a little from time to time though.
What’s tons better though, is that as an exclusive product to Toys ‘R’ Us, you will soon be able to get your hands on a LEGO Wii remote. [Read more…]
Check out this cool Lego minifigure ice cube tray that allows you to create ice cubes in the shape of those mini Lego men.
The tray comes in blue and is capable of creating 8 minifugures.
The Minifigure Ice Cube Tray is available from the Lego store in the US and costs $8. [Read more…]
Check out this cool printer. It is built of LEGO and uses a felt tip pen to print on standard paper.
The kit cannot be purchased in a standard kit, ie, it’s not LEGO mindstorms controlling the system. Instead the creator managed to design, build and code it all from scratch using analog motor electronics along with sensors and a printer driver. The LEGO printer connects up to a Mac using a USB interface.
When using the printer it looks to work like a standard printer on a Mac in that when you instruct a document to be printed, you can select the LEGO Felt Tip 110 printer from the drop down menu. [Read more…]
Check out this Lego bridge launcher. The Lego Bridge launcher was built by Mahjqa Kreuger who managed to build a Lego vehicle that is capable of deploying it’s own bridge across a gap, driving over it’s own bridge and then recovering the bridge afterwards.
It’s quite amazing to see the video of it working and how all the various parts move to get the bridge to open up correctly.
The video can be seen after the break which is then followed by a couple of out takes which are quite fun to watch. [Read more…]
