The robotic Lego kit used to design a robo-toilet flusher as already covered within these pages some weeks ago has made it to the shortlist of 10 most brilliant inventions of 2007 as sponsored by R&D magazine. In fact, it only made it into the top 100 but this guy put it into his top [...]
Nerds still alive and well: guy builds Halo to scale with Lego
So sad it’s brilliant. I can’t believe real grown men find the time to do this but it is nonetheless to be commended. One step up from the bloke who made the Tron suit and only slightly less good. Check out all 8 minutes of gloriousness:
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Bloke builds iPhone out of Lego
Unfortunately it doesn’t have any functionality whatsoever other than being able to take it apart and make other stuff out of it’s parts. Like the actual iPhone it retails at $399 which is a bit steep considering it doesn’t look anything like an iPhone and you could build your own for about 20 quid, [...]
Warning: also Incredibly Sad, but Good
Some bloke over at Battlebricks has built a toilet flushing robot that only goes off when it senses the user has gotten off the crapper. Now this is sad, but it’s useful, and it also appeals to my legendary laziness and love of stickable plastic bricks.
It was built using he NXT Mindstorms kit which is [...]
Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick
One for the nerds among you. The biggest Lego set ever has just been released and it a bloody big version of the Millenium Falcon. You’re given an instruction manual weighing in at nearly 2 kilos that outlines how to put the 5000 piece set together. Unlike most Lego sets it’s age is set at [...]
