Archive for the ‘LEGO’ Category
Monday, February 12th, 2007
LEGO Store - Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falconâ„¢
This is it - the biggest, most spectacular LEGO® Star Wars model ever! Straight out of the classic Star Wars movies comes the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon, Han Solo's famous smuggling starship. Every detail of the modified Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-1300 freighter is here, ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
MAKE: Blog: Homemade "Shaun of the Dead" LEGO Minifig costume
"My original Halloween plans got toasted, so I had to come up with something in short order. About a week ago, I was going thru Halloween ideas and remembered seeing this Lego MiniFig Costume. Lego's been one of those fun things ...
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
Lego Mindstorms NXT : Page 1
Steve Hassenplug is sitting in a van with seven other people on the way to a Lego convention in Washington, DC, explaining the limitations of Lego's previous robot-building kit, called Mindstorms. "It was always difficult to build a robot that could drive straight," he says.
The ...
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Chris Doyle Presents - Reasonably Clever! Wasting your workday since 1995
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Guided Tour
Welcome to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Let me show you around the place...
We'll start off on the East side of the building - imagine that we're walking up from the parking ...
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
Lego Guitar
If I had more time to play these days I'd be tempted to try making one myself.
This is not my guitar. I just took the pictures before the guy sold it on eBay. The guitar was playable, but had to be re-tuned after a few chops. The 'truss ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Brickshelf Gallery
An insanely large scale model of the USS Harry S Truman (CVN75). There's a lot of attention to detail. If anyone knows of a writeup about this model, please let me know in the comments and I'll include links here.
A bit of info fron here.
Some facts:
Made by ...
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Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Video Feature: Lego Mindstorms - Engadget
Nice. 32 bit processor, bluetooth, and an ultrasonic sensor.
Yesterday we set you off with some video of the ROKR E2 from a CES press event; today, we're giving you a look at the revamped version of Lego Mindstorms. Popular with hackers for its programability, ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Thoughts About Photography: Medium Format Pinhole Lego Camera
As you should all know, I'm a sucker for most anything LEGO. Here's a working pinhole camera, and some pics on Flickr and a gallery.
After making the Lego conversion of my old Polaroid 95a, I decided to tackle another Lego challenge: a ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
BrickJournal - the magazine for Adult Fans of LEGO
Yay! I'm very glad to see they produced a second issue. The first was brilliant and I'm expecting this one to be even better.
BrickJournal Issue 2 is now available for download!
This issue is themed toward Mecha with interviews with:
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Friday, October 14th, 2005
Home-made winder (Now with more pictures)
Happy New Year everyone! I just wanted to share my new yarn related Xmas present with everyone. For christmas I aquired over 20 lovely hanks of yarn, but with no winder it'd be 20 hours of winding before any knitting could begin. ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Turing machine
Cool LEGO creation.
Although it is composed of pretty simple capabilities, Turing argued that this simple machine could performed any computation, that is, could realize anything that results from operations. In 1950, he discussed that the mind is itself the results of operations (at the neural level) and thus is ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Abston Church of Christ
A very very detailed church made entirely out of Lego.
I got back into LEGO building in June, 2000, shortly after adopting Precious, my third cat. She loved to be amidst my building from the start. She didn't disturb partially assembled LEGO objects, or even piles of bricks, ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Flickr: Photos from Legozilla
Some amazing LEGO creations. I really like the spider.
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