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Tag Archives: LEGO

Here’s That Motorized LEGO Wheelchair You’ve Always Dreamed Of

By David Ponce on 08/01/12 • 1 Comment

There’s a good number of things you can make with LEGOs. That’s why they’re so much fun! We’ve come across everything from MC Escher/Star Wars hybrids to a ridiculously detailed Porsche 911. But we’re pretty sure this motorized wheelchair is a first. It carries a person weighing up to 90kg (198lbs) around at blistering speeds of next to nothing, doing 0 to next-to-nothing in forever flat. It sounds like we don’t like it, but we do. It’s just kind of slow. But who really cares? It was made with 7 LEGO Mindstorm NXT’s, 14 LEGO Mindstorm motors, 6 LEGO Mindstorm touch sensors, 12 Rotocaster Muti-directional wheels and “a whole lot of LEGO Tecnic” by one Simon “Burf” Burfield. And while the chair is plenty cool as it is, Simon is working on replacing the current joystick controller with a wireless Bluetooth/Android control.

Hit the jump for a video of the chair in action and links.

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Star Wars, MC Escher, LEGO… Did We Die And Is This Heaven?

By David Ponce on 06/08/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Pretty much on the brink of a nerdgasm here, we think the above creation from one Paul Vermeesch should seriously be in a museum. Or something. Mimicking M.C.Escher’s famous 1953 lithograph “Relativity“, Vermeesch carefully recreated scenes from the Star Wars trilogy in an intricate 1X1X1ft cube of LEGO. There’s a storm trooper pacing the desert in search of two droids. There’s Obi Wan Kenobi scuttling off down a walkway after disabling the tractor beam. There’s even the Endor scene, complete with foliage and Ewoks.

It’s pure genius. To encourage you to visit Paul’s MOC page, we won’t post much of his photographs here. But you should definitely give them a look.

[ M.C.Escher's LEGO Star Wars ]

Hands-On: LEGO Minecraft Set

By David Ponce on 06/06/12 • 2 Comments

By David Ponce

Remember that LEGO Minecraft set we wrote about last February? It was scheduled to be released this year and represents the first CUUSOO product to be released outside of Japan. If you’re not aware, LEGO CUUSOO is the company’s crowdsourced design blog where any entry with over 10,000 is considered for production. The $35 kit is now in the hands of some customers and the video below shows you a hands-on by The Brothers Brick.

[ The Brothers Brick ] VIA [ Geeky-Gadgets ]

LEGO Land Rover Needs Your Support To Become Reality

By David Ponce on 05/21/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Some of you may know that LEGO has a website called Cuusoo where would-be customers are allowed to vote on reader-submitted concepts. If any particular submission gets at least 10,000 votes, the company will look at it and potentially make it a reality. The above is one such concept. It’s a Land Rover RC car with more figure than you can shake a remote control at.

It is a 1:8.5 scale recreation of Rover’s legendary truck, built from nearly 2,800 parts, including 7 motors and 3 IR receivers. Along with the intense AWD system and live axles in the front and rear, it also features a five-speed sequential gearbox with an automatic clutch, a two-speed transfer case, and a whole host of working parts like doors, hood, and tailgate.

Of course at this point it’s nothing but some guy’s rather badass prototype and it’s only garnered 1,634 votes from the required 10,000. But hey, voting is free so if this is you thing, you know what to do.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Uncrate ]

Dude Makes Custom-Painted Minifig Babies

By David Ponce on 05/18/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Custom painted toys are nothing new under the sun. Very often however the paint chips off or you’re stuck with bad quality stickers. We’re told the guys at CitizenBrick offer higher quality items. More importantly, they offer some neat looking items, such as the baby minifigs you see in the picture above. Because, hey, if there aren’t babies, then why are there so many minifigs around? At $1 a pop, you better hope they’re good quality.

Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures of other custom painted LEGO figurines.

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Back To The Future LEGO Could Very Well Become Reality

By David Ponce on 04/30/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

So it turns out that LEGO has this thing called LEGO Cuusoo, which is kind of a digital suggestion box. You can create your own designs of LEGO sets that you’d like to see, and if they get at least 10,000 votes, the company will seriously look at it and potentially make it. The above Back To The Future set has reached that milestone, so there’s a pretty decent chance it’ll become a real product. Not everything gets approved however. A Shaun Of The Dead design that had reached the threshold was vetoed by the company on the grounds that it was too violent a movie for its target market of young kids. But the BTTF concept you see above should not run into the same problem. The set

includes all the pieces to make three versions of the DeLorean, one for each movie, along with the required props and minifigs of Doc Brown and Marty McFly. It will require you to build your own Lego Hill Valley .

We can’t imagine anything derailing this project, other than not being able to secure the rights maybe. So it should only be a matter of time until we update you with availability information.

[ LEGO Cuusoo ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]

LEGO Darth Vader Lamp

By David Ponce on 04/23/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

It’s kind of hard not to like this lamp. It combines so many of the things we like into one 7.5 inch tall object. LEGO, for one. And Star Wars, for two. And lightsabers for three. It’s powered through AAA batteries, or through USB. And it launches in May for $50.

That’s a fair price.

What’s not so nice is the fact that they used an annoying pre-pubescent boy to “narrate” the promotional video.

Really guys?

[ Product Page ] VIA [ NerdApproved ]

LEGO R2-D2 Set For May Release

By David Ponce on 03/16/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

There aren’t many things that tickle a geek quite as much as Star Wars and LEGOs. So you can imagine the excitement at the news that the LEGO Ultimate Collector Series R2-D2 is set to be released in May. Measuring over 12 inches in height, the 2,100 piece robot features a 360 degree rotating head, “a retractable third leg, front panels that open to reveal a universal computer interface arm and a circular saw, and 2 fold-out front spacecraft linkage control arms.” It’s big, it’s heavy and yes, it’s also expensive at $250. It’ll be available directly through the LEGO website.

You should definitely hit the jump to see a video detailing the development process. And watch until the end, it gets a little funny.

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Lego Minecraft Sets Unveiled, Blocky Goodness Ready For Summer Launch

By David Ponce on 02/17/12 • 4 Comments

By David Ponce

Both Lego and Minecraft are held in high esteem in the minds of geeks worldwide. Both are in the business of building blocky worlds, one with plastic cubes and the other with digital ones. And a while ago it was announced that the two companies would be partnering to turn some of the Minecraft world into actual, tangible Lego pieces. Well today brings pictures of what that kit will look like, and it’s just as blocky as you’d imagine. You get 480 pieces that “include four LEGO Minecraft modules, hidden resources, extra pieces for wood, dirt, and stone, two “Micro Mobs;” Steve and a creeper.” Currently on pre-order at J!NX for $35, the LEGO® Minecraft™ Micro World kit will be available this summer.

Hit the jump for a couple more pictures and links.

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