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- 2010-Jul-22: A Wall-E robot made out of Lego. [9320]
- 2010-Jun-25: A felt tip pen based printer implemented in Lego, also discussed here on Slashdot. [9163]
- 2010-Jun-15: Monster Chess a large chess set built out of about $30K worth of Lego. Wow! [9199]
- 2010-Mar-11: A Lego Crawler Town, an awesome construction. [9012]
- 2010-Feb-08: It is possible to control a Lego Mindstorms robot from an Android smart phone like the HTC Hero. [8958]
- 2009-Nov-10: An amazing Lego popup temple. [8727]
- 2009-Sep-04: Researchers are playing with Lego to learn how arrays of nanoscopic objects could be used to sort cells. Or so they claim, really its all about accumulating a massive pile of Lego blocks in the rare colours. I just wish I had tought about using Lego in my thesis. [8468] [1]
- 2009-Mar-23: A 3D scanner has been built from Lego. [7774]
- 2009-Feb-13: A Lego camcorder, get two for the eyes of your next robot. [7576]
- 2008-Nov-19: A safe made from Lego, including a combination lock system. [7236]
- 2008-Oct-11: Making large pictures for your wall with Lego, discussed here on Slashdot. Another Lego mosaic artist, who wrote a program called Pixelego once to do this soft of thing, other pixel-brick programs are listed here. Lugnet has an online mosaic making tool here, it has an interesting presentation of the available brick palette. Another one, built as an applet, is here. [7002]
- 2008-Aug-25: Gizmodo takes a look at how the Lego mini-figures are manufactured. [6729]
- 2008-Aug-08: A rather impressive black tower case built out of Lego (that's a lot of bricks). Now only if there were some standard Lego bricks that offered USB, FireWire, eSATA and 3.5mm audio jack connectors. [6651] [1]
- 2008-Jul-22: A look inside the Lego factory. [6562]
- 2008-Jul-14: LDraw.org maintains the LDraw open standard for LEGO CAD programs to allow for interchange of parts and models. [6521]
- 2008-Jun-25: Lego's secret vault contains one of every Lego set ever created. [6426]
- 2008-Mar-25: The eLite LED kits from Lifelites add LED lighting to Lego models. [5329]
- 2008-Feb-26: USB flash drives built into basic Lego-style bricks. [5164] [1]
- 2008-Feb-25: Brick Fetish is a site that documents the early history of Lego, including the early sets and catalogs. [5152]
- 2007-Nov-04: A crop harvester built of Lego. [3957]
- So why are people waiting for Segways to become available at a reasonable (or in fact any) price? Just build one yourself from Lego - the Legway. This project used some additional sensors from HiTechnic products and accessories. [5720]
- LeoCAD, bringing Lego to your computer screen. [5599]
- An automatic toilet flusher constructed from the Lego NXT set. [3956]
- The Johnny Five robot (from the movie Short Circuit) constructed from Lego. [3955]
- A Lego train-robot that lays its own tracks and picks up the track it once used [3954]
- A lego pet-dog (sort of like the Sony Abio) [3953]
- Making a Segway-like model out of Lego Mindstorms NXT [3952]
- Combining Lego NXT with a gyro sensor from Hitechnic to make an unmanned aircraft [3951]
- Lego Sumo Robotics, push your opponent out of the ring, I guess flame throwers are not allowed? [3950]
- Building Chips like Lego. In the past integrated circuits have be assembled from building blocks which still need to be stiched together, now someone has realized that if they made the physical circuit masks shaped in a standardized way (much like the way Lego bricks are) then you can just cut and paste together new chips from various building blocks. [3949]
- How Lego bricks are made [3948]
- JustBricks.com sells used Lego [3947]
- The Toy Brick Brigade sells used Lego [3946]
- Building a automatic, page-turning, book scanner out of Lego [3945]
- Building a Babbage Difference Engine out of a lot of Lego [3944]
- Build your own Lego kit [3943]
- A Lego robotics competition in 2005. This also includes a link to VEX Robotics that looks a lot like a grown up version of Meccano. Here's a bit more about the VEX system, which is available from RadioShack. The MythBusters TV show people gave VEX a try, here's the write up (Slashdot discussion here), it gives a pretty good introduction to VEX. They also talk quite a bit about some new components (tracks and ultrasonic range finder) that will be available in the VEX system soon. [3942]
- How about making a computer case out of Lego? [3941]
- Turning a GameBoy into a controller for Lego Robotics [3940]
- Crossing Lego Mindstorms with .NET [3939]
- A Slashdot review of the book Getting Started with Lego Trains, by Jacob H. McKee, ISBN: 1593270062 [3938]
- The Brick Apple features a Lego Empire State building, Greenwich Village and World Trade Center, as well as some nice cars. [3937]
- Escher's work rendered in LEGO. [3936]
- A trebuchet built out of lego. [3935]
- Brown University actually runs a course, CS148: Building Intelligent Robots, using Lego Robotics. What fun! USC also has a course that uses Lego Robotics in their lab. [3934]
- Lego RCX used to automate changing backup tapes [3933]
- legOS an alternative operating system for the Lego RCX [3932]
- A TCP/IP enabled Lego Robotics RCX module, soon to be the first Lego WWW server. [3931]
- ASCII Moasic made with Modulex bricks (a cousin of Lego) [3930]
- BricksWest, a Lego convention in California held in February [3929]
- Mathematical surfaces and shapes rendered in Lego [3928]
- Solving the Rubik's Cube with Lego MindStorms [3927]