I’ve always been impressed by the creativity of the people who make elaborate sculptures from LEGOs. I’ve also been appalled by their obsessiveness, but that’s another story.
This takes things to a whole new level: Arthur Sacek created this 3D milling machine (almost) entirely from LEGO pieces. It’s a LEGO machine that creates its own sculptures. The payoff is at 1:41.
I guess the next step is to create a LEGO machine that makes LEGO machines. At that point, the human race becomes obsolete.
Resistance is futile
Skynet 1.0
So basically, our kids can start to create Judgement Day.
A Lego machine that carves things out of floral foam? I suggest that we use this device to craft a 2012 presidential candidate. You know, someone more substantial than the current runners.
This is why geeks like Lego, you can do anything with them. Legos should have its own religion, like FSM. Best stuff ever
My house is full of Lego’s. I never got into them. The OCD husband likes building the sets exactly as the box directs, and then leaving them intact forever. The ASD son likes taking them apart to form random abstract things while chewing on a few. I think they mostly hurt to step on and make cleaning up the floor a pain.
The OCD husband likes building the sets exactly as the box directs, and then leaving them intact forever.
Ack. This modern perversion is the antithesis of the Lego concept.
I went through that phase about ten years ago. The kits circa 2000 were a whole lot more sophisticated and flashy than the ones I had as a kid. And I found that I missed just having a pile of random blocks that I could make anything I wanted out of.
Damn. Now I want to go to garage sales and buy a bunch of random Lego pieces to play with.
Still, the “Alpha Team” and “Life on Mars” series were pretty cool. I still have them somewhere in the attic stacked alongside the “Harry Potter” Lego kits.
just took the grandson to Legoland a couple weeks ago…….
all I can say is
wow
http://bit.ly/oxMfVZ
It has begun.
I for one, welcome our lego overlords. (In Swedish lego means toy)
It’s from the danish for “play is good” or “play well” (it’s a contraction)
From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
Lego
1954, proprietary name (in use since 1934, according to the company), from Dan. phrase leg godt “play well.” The founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, didn’t realize until later that the word meant “I study” or “I put together” in Latin.
A lego machine that makes legislation machines, you say?
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/si-mocs/5797622926/
okay, that probably wasn’t quite what you meant, but it’s still awesome. :)