Hey everyone, remember our post about the PC which was built from 1,238 pieces of Lego? Here is another one, except the only difference is that this is a Mac, but still just as cool though – Lego really can build anything! The Lego built Mac Pro featured here was built by RP Cuento, out of 2,588 Lego bricks (twice as much as the PC one), hardware wise, a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo Hackintosh and a 1.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini!
Watch this video which compresses the entire 14+ hours of building into 2-3 minutes, pretty amazing stuff, I have to say, you got to admire his patience and perseverance, this is not easy at all! Continue reading »
Check out this Wall-E robot clone built of Lego! Though this robot is made of Lego and won’t look or sound as genuine as the one you’ve seen in the movie, it’s always incredible (I think) to see people bring Lego to life simply by putting abit of brain power and engineering skill into the good old plastic blocks…
Youtube user Bazmarc, a 41-year old from Canada who works in IT is a serious Lego fan who enjoys Lego Robotics building and programming. Just very recently he posted a series of videos showing his totally cool implementation of the WALL-E robot constructed completely from stock Lego NXT Mindstorms robot system parts. Not only is the robot realistic, it also features some very emotional and touching eye movements.
Bazmarc’s robot creation does use some third party components, like Mindsensors and HiTechnic – both Lego certified though!
According to some comments on his videos, the robot uses…
“1 NXT with rechargable pack, 3 Servo Motors, 4 PF motors, 2 IR receiver, 1 UltraSonic sensor, 1 sound sensor, 1 IRlink, 1 NXTservo module and 1 mini RC servo, 10 AA batteries and Lego from the Bulldozer #8275 and other parts from various technic sets.”
Lego is probably one of the things that we find most enjoyable to talk about here on this blog, unfortunately its not easy to build every from Lego. Luke Andersen, a computer science major student from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, decided that he wanted to have something special for a PC, something with a wow geeky factor. So he made up his mind and first created the plans for his PC via a simple CAD program. Then he bought 1,238 Lego pieces (for a total of $140) to assemble his masterpiece as pictured, his design includes a removable panel which is pretty clever because he’ll always be backed up just in case he needed an upgrade. Another clever thing about using Lego to build his PC tower is that he can probably design places where he could easily take chunks of Lego out in the situation that the PC overheated.
And if he didn’t like the design, he could always smash it and rebuild a different design, that’s $140 well spent! Continue reading »
Well it’s taken some time but the Lego Batman game will soon be out in a couple of months, I normally don’t talk about games but this one is Lego! Featured in the trailer after the break you will get to see the game in action, I believe it will be available for the Playstation 3 and XBOX 360 and PC I presume?
I just love watching pieces of Lego fly everywhere when you beat up someone on the street, but that’s not the best bit. In Lego Batman there will be a new twist with Villain Mode, which is a game mode that will let you cause the chaos for a change instead of having to protect the citizens all the time, a much more easier job!?
Prepared to be amazed, the Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airplane in the world and what do you get when you try to translate that into Lego: The biggest Lego plane in the world! As the short video below shows, the Lego plane has been built on a 1:25 scale, it’s dimensions are: 9.5-foot long, 10.5-foot wingspam, 3.2-foot tall, altogther the 75,000 pieces weigh in at 220 pounds! Just how do these people do it? I’m not too sure, it would be great if there was a video showing this, but all I know is that it even took these Lego specialists over 600 hours to assemble!
Click here to head over to Gizmodo to watch the short clip…
For $46 you can get your hands on a mp3 player that tricks people into thinking that Lego had actually created their our Lego block mp3 player. Each nob represents a control button such as play, pause, forward, backward and volume. It doesn’t have any built-in memory though, but it does support microSD, which I feel is even better, though you have to get yourself a new memory card if you don’t already have one. What does everyone think, is the Lego block made to the right standards?
As a huge gadget fan myself, this mp3 player though not official does convinces to go and make a purchase… 
[via Technabob]
Maybe not the latest, as it hasn’t come out yet but the Darwin, developed by Motus Games will certainly take on a massive role when this latest game console gadget gets released. What is it? The Darwin is bascially a Willmote for use with the Xbox 360, the PS3 and PC, but even better! As we all know, the Wiimote is probably why people buy the Wii, it’s the feature that makes people want to get hold of it, it’s also the reason why most shops here in the UK ran out of stock for it during the Christmas holidays last year. To have wireless controllers that detect our movements for game play in real-time is just gamers’ dream come true.
