Last Minute Lego Costume
Turn a cardboard box and some plastic bowls into a great last minute Lego brick costume.
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RoboFlush – The LEGO NXT Mindstorms toilet flusher robot
BattleBricks show you how to make your own “RoboFlusher” – Tired of flushing your own toilet? Build a RoboFlush! RoboFlush is a simple Lego NXT Mindstorms Robot designed to flush a toilet automatically. It also comes with a manual flush option! Check out these instructions to build your own. Mike D’Amour came up with the […]
HOW TO – Make chocolate LEGO
Jordan writes – It was sometime last year that I first came up with the idea of combining two of my favourite things – choclate and Lego – but didn’t really know where to start. I knew I’d need some kind of mold, but never got around to working out the best way to make […]
EMS Labs’ review of Forbidden LEGO
Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Labs got a copy of the new No Starch Press title “Forbidden LEGO.” He explains the idea behind the book: Forbidden Lego is written by a pair of Lego master builders, who used to work in designing advanced Lego sets (e.g., Mindstorms). While they obviously got to work on lots […]
LEGO turns 75
Happy 75th birthday LEGO! – Parties were due to take place around the world Friday for Danish toy firm Lego as its 5,000 global employees prepared to celebrate the company’s 75th birthday. Master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen started the company on August 10, 1932 in his studio in the town of Billund in Jutland. The […]
LEGO mosaics
Chris writes – Hey Maker Community, most of us have a fond memory of Lego as children, here’s a site to rekindle that blockly love! Here’s a step by step, one simple method to creating your own Lego mosaics. I take you from raw image, through to sourcing the bricks and then final assembly. Any […]
LEGO build at World Children’s Festival in DC
Lee writes in – NCSU College of Design is at World Children’s Festival at the National Mall in Washington DC this weekend (through Monday)… the Art+Design group is putting together flipbooks (custom Flash Applet) and digital comicbooks (Comiclife) for guests using real time color keying ala quasimondo.com. The Lego team is right next door to […]
