techlaunches.com - 8/18/2008
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lego_olympics_1.jpg Inspired by the Beijing Games, Lego buffs from Hong Kong have recreated their own Olympics built entirely from Lego blocks. "More than 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego people were used to create the display, by the Hong Kong Lego User Group. Making a splash: The Hong Kong Lego team went to great lengths to recreate the spectacular Water Cube aquatic centre." ...
Lego Olympics —
Ubergizmo
Everybody seems to have been bitten by the Olympic bug, and Lego enthusiasts aren’t spared either. A group of 4,500 people from the Hong Kong Lego User Group spent quite a bit of time and more than 300,000 Lego bricks to create their own Olympic Lego model, which includes landmarks such as the Birds’ Nest Stadium, Birds’ eye view, Water Cube Aquatic Centre. The entire miniature city ...
Amazing LEGO Olympic scenes —
CrunchGear
The Hong Kong LEGO User Group used some 300,000 LEGO blocks and 4,500 LEGO people to recreate some amazing scenes and venues from the Beijing Games. Hit the jump for some views of the Water Cube, table tennis, beach volleyball, and more…
A few more photos over at The Daily Mail .
LEGO pin plotter —
MAKE Magazine
Check out this nifty LEGO NXT printer, a "needle plotter" with a ...er... prickable area of 90 x 70mm at 33 pricks per inch.
NXT pin-plotter III [via Hack-a-Day ]
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Taj Mahal LEGO Set Largest Ever Created —
GEARFUSE
If you're an avid LEGO fan, you're probably aware that the largest LEGO set you can buy in stores nowadays is the 5195 piece Millennium Falcon. For awhile, it was the cream of the crop. But next month, things are going to change. LEGO is introducing the Taj Mahal in ...
Build the Taj Mahal out of 5900 LEGO pieces, the biggest LEGO set ever made —
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Quit wasting your time building LEGO models of Death Stars and LEGO space ships from moldy and childish movies that are decades old. Leap back a few centuries and build the Taj Mahal, the most beautiful structure ever created.
Construct the 5900 LEGO pieces — the largest commercially available LEGO set yet — and you’ll have this detailed replica of the gorgeous mausoleum ...
An Infininte Resource Of LEGO Bricks —
GEARFUSE
In construction work, it always helps to have a blueprint of your plans before you start building. Well, the same goes for LEGO construction, too. A new updated version of Allen Smith's LEGO design freeware, Bricksmith was just released. Now, you can generate mini figures and add them to ...
littleBits: magnetic, LEGO-like circuit board components —
Boing Boing Gadgets
littleBits are LEGO-like pieces of pre-assembled circuitry that can be magnetically snapped together for the easy construction of more complicated circuit board. Just mix-and-match from a phantasmagoria of circuitry to come up with the widget gleaming in your mind's eye. Also LEGO-like: my mechanical incompetence will completely prevent me from building a Flux Capacitor out of ...
make virtual lego creations on your mac with bricksmith —
technabob
Bricksmith is an open source application that allows you to make awesome virtual Lego models on your Mac. It’s a bit like a complex, tricked-out version of this LEGO iPhone app concept .
Bricksmith was created by Allen Smith. The application includes a parts browser, a full Lego color palette, drag-and-drop building, and more. It’s been around for a few years, but an updated ...
lego pop art mosaics built brick by tiny brick —
technabob
These LEGO brick art pieces are the perfect way to brighten up any drab room.
Painstakingly assembled by artist Motion5, these artworks use anywhere from 800 to 4000 colorful single-peg LEGO building blocks. Pieces range in size from 10″x10″ up to 20″x30″, and Motion5 will also do custom designs to your specifications. (We want LEGO video game characters, please!) ...
The Lego PC We Knew Existed Actually Exists [Lego Pc] —
Gizmodo
The other day we posted a mean-looking, black as night Lego PC that didn't resemble the iconic toy in the slightest. Then we described the picture that the term "Lego PC" painted in our mind's eye, a "vivid red, yellow and blue case topped with a small army of minifigs and maybe a pirate ship." Well, a reader spotted this system over the weekend, and it comes darn close to our description. ...
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