Computer AI Lego Hands
I love these cool robot hands! Simon Liu built them as part of Iron Builder. He also has a couple of other poses including this sweet one. [Thanks, Rosie!]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
More Lego Great Ball Contraption Action
We’ve covered akiyuky’s GBC work before. Here’s a recently posted video of a 17 module GBC running 500 balls over a 31m path that took over 600 hours to complete. Make sure you’ve got the seven minutes or so to watch this video, because it is mesmerizing.
Peace, Love, and EL Wire
The thing this first-time Burner found the most overwhelming (in the good way) was the presence of the maker spirit everywhere I looked. Practically everything that makes its way to Black Rock City is made by hand, and most of it is made just because nothing quite like it has ever been made before.
Monster K’nex Ball Machine Packs 40K Parts
Amazing. This is Clockwork, my fifth major K’nex ball machine, and my largest and most complex K’nex structure to date. It took 8 months to build, has over 40,000 pieces, over 450 feet of track, 21 different paths, 8 motors, 5 lifts, and a one-of-a-kind computer-controlled crane, as well as two computer-controlled illuminated K’nex balls. […]
Raspberry Pi and Lego Supercomputing Cluster
Named after the University of Southampton’s Iridis super computer, Professor Simon Cox’s Iridis-Pi is a supercomputing cluster consisting of 64 Raspberry Pi single board computers enclosed in a modular LEGO rack enclosure.
Play Pong While Waiting for the Light to Change
If you find yourself on the streets of Hildesheim Germany you might be pleasantly surprised to be suddenly pitted against another pedestrian in a game of pong.
Printing Custom Lego-Compatible Beams
Brian Jepson is editing the Lego book Wayne & Layne and I are working on (it’s called Make: Lego and Arduino Projects) and he was faced with having to buy a ton of parts in order to test our models. Instead he decided to use his 3D printer to make his own! Inspired by BitBeam‘s […]
