The Brothers Brick » Building Techniques

Arpy has Pac-Man fever

Andrew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:05:49 +0000

Did you know that the red ghost in Pac-Man was named “Blinky”?

Ean (Arpy) knew that, and built a lovely mosaic using Technic ~~pins~~ axles instead of bricks.

Wakka wakka wakka!

Who needs LEGO electronics when you can build your own?

Andrew — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:58:03 +0000

The MP3 Player, CD Boombox, Digital Camera, and other devices LEGO has licensed Digital Blue to manufacture may be out in stores now, but we all know they’re not “real” LEGO. If you want electronics built from actual LEGO bricks, you’ll have to make your own.

Well, that’s exactly what John Park over at Make Online has done, building his own wall-mounted charging station that handles an iPod and a cellphone, along with hooks for two pairs of keys.

Click the pic to read exactly how John built his recharger.

Meanwhile, Andy Lunn has built an ingenious flip light from LEDs and LEGO. Watch the video here, and read his instructions on how to build your own LEGO flip light:

Mestrovic Pavilion

Josh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:23:36 +0000

Matija Grguric’s rendition of this Croatian landmark is simply gorgeous. I’m in love with the smoothness and sense of grace in this structure.

This is what you look like…

Josh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:53:19 +0000

….to someone not from here. Da Eart, by Cole Blaq, is freaking me out. I keep looking in the mirror to see if this really what earthlings look like. I think I’m getting there.

Busy bee

gambort — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:20:07 +0000

I’ve been a busy bee and had no time to do a decent job of blogging. So here are the pictures I have in my bloglist. One is old, two are new.

I want candy

Dan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:07:37 +0000

What else is there to say? These candy machines by Armothe are perfect.

Welcome to the machine

gambort — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:53:21 +0000

Box guy meet Fedde (Karf Oolhu), Fedde meet box guy.

Building decay

Nannan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:47:10 +0000

For those builders of post-apoc, military, or realist city, here’s a technique shown on a creation by Marin Stipkovic that shows a nice effect of building decay. The multi-shades of plates mimics the exposed bricks while the gray simulates broken concrete. Looks useful!

Pop-up LEGO Kinkaku-ji opens to reveal golden pavilion

Andrew — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:02:53 +0000

The Buddhist temple of Kinkaku-ji was originally built in 1397. In 2009, talapz built a Kinkaku-ji in a box. Okay, words fail me here. They really do.

The builder notes in the video that he used 4,500 LEGO pieces to build his pop-up Kinkaku-ji, and it weighs 4 kg. Be sure to watch the whole video — talapz shows how this amazing creation pops up out of the box.

And don’t miss Jumpei Mitsui’s Kinkaku-ji from 2007.

LEGO Star Wars Slave Leia as a CubeDude – CubeBabe? CubeGirl? She’s CubeLicious!

Andrew — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:55:28 +0000

Beyond the originals by Angus MacLane, my favorite CubeDude so far is this lovely Princess Leia as Jabba’s slave girl by Larry Lars.

I love the fact that Larry’s Leia is less, uh, cubical than most other CubeDudes. Beyond juvenile references to CubeDude anatomy, Larry has incorporated some really interesting techniques, including LEGO coins as earrings. Larry explains:

The coins are squeezed in between the head and the 1×1 round plates connected to the underside of headlight bricks. Since there is an edge on the coins they stay there.