Thursday, September 27, 2012

LEGO Wheelchair


 This Lego wheelchair is powered by Mindstorms and can support up to about 200 lbs. (90 Kg). 6 NXT's are used to control the drive motors while a master controls the direction. Each driving NXT has 2 motors and 2 touch sensors for direction, while the master has 4 touch sensors to control direction and 2 motors to switch on the driving touch sensors. Support for Android and Bluetooth is currently being worked on.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

17-Stage Ball Contraption


 This amazing Lego machine, built by Skiyuky, does a very simple task. Moving balls along a complete circuit. That is all it does. But it does that task in such an amazingly cool way. And it's incredibly accurate.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Rivendell - Home of the Elves


 This is... beautiful. This masterpiece is the result of a collaboration by Blake Baer (Blake's Baericks) and Jake Bittner (Bitts and Pieces), which was shown at BrickFair this month.
 Here's a video of set with all its details on display.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Faerie Forest


 The "Faerie Forest," made by Sean and Steph Mayo (Siercon and Coral). I love this because of how intricate it is. It's just so detailed and, in some parts, beautiful.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Super Awesome Batman/Joker Mosiac

 You may know Arthur Gugick (torgugick) from his Anakin/Darth Vader lenticular mosiac. Well, he's back with this amazing Batman/Joker lenticular mosiac. This is just a quick post so no embedded video. You'll have to go look yourself.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Happy Birthday LEGO!

 80 years ago, in 1932, Ole Kirk Christiansen started making wooden toy in his workshop. In 1934, he named his company "Lego," from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well." In '47 they began producing plastic toys, and then in the year 1949, the "Automatic Binding Brick" was introduced. And the world was then a better place.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Steampunk Sunday


 captainsmog's "Anihilator" handgun, standard issue among the Mars Imperial Elite Troops.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Now These Are Awesome.


 This Star Wars: Return of the Jedi chess set, made by Brandon Griffith (icgetaway), is the third in a series of Star Wars-related chess sets, along with A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. All the pieces except the pawns are mini-scenes in themselves. All of them, amazing pieces of work. Truly incredible.