In a Fox News article today, reporters comment on a LEGO book that instructs you how to make automated inventions including an automatic LEGO pistol that shoots out LEGO plates. Check out the video, read the news, and take a look at the book Forbidden LEGO.
The bloggers at Neatorama seem to love LEGO, and for that The Brothers Brick love Neatorama. As one of the top 50 blogs in the world, we also love the traffic they’ve sent us several times over the last few months. :-D
Sebastian Dick‘s LEGO chaingun is at the top of the page on Neatorama right now, so it seems as good a time as any to feature it here (I know it’s a bit old, but I hope it’s new to some of our readers):
Scaled-down versions of classic Technic sets by the Arvo brothers (via Klocki) and Sugegasa’s Waterside Station:
LEGO Design School on LEGO.com (via LegOficina dos Baixinhos.
NXT Rubik’s cube solver by Daniele Benedettelli (via LEGO.com MINDSTORMS NXT News).
Tim “Spook” Zarki’s microscale Maintenance and Repair Vessel (via Moyblik):
I’ve seen lots of cool creations on the various LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT blogs I read, but none of them compares to this working vending machine built by Ricardo T.
A few of my favorite features:
(Read more in Portuguese on Forum0937, and in English on Ladrillitos. Thanks for the links, Juan Macias!)
Check out these two funny videos of the new Mindstorms NXT robots. Thanks to LEGO Ambassador Nelson Yrizarry for pointing them out.
http://5x5m.com/files/mindstorms/
EDIT (AB): Okay, the auto-play is just too annoying. (Sorry LEGO, choose a different video hosting service next time.) I’m swapping the videos for a link to the page where you can watch both of them. Both hilarious, by the way.
The non-disclosure agreement signed by participants in the Mindstorms Developer Program (MDP) expires today, so those of you who’ve been waiting for more information on LEGO Mindstorms NXT need wait no longer! Head on over to The NXT STEP for extensive coverage on this new product. Updates today include pictures, links to new Web sites, and previously unreleased information about Mindstorms NXT.