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Modulex is LEGO’s Long Lost Cousin

February 8, 2023 Navarre Bartz 47 Viewsarchitecture, bricks, lego, LEGO Modulex, Modulex, plancopy, planning, planning tool, signage 1 min read

We love LEGO here at Hackaday, but did you know that LEGO spun off a parallel product line made for architectural models called Modulex? [Peter Dibble] takes us on a

3D Printing Giant LEGO-Like Blocks To Build Big Toys

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3D Printing Giant LEGO-Like Blocks To Build Big Toys

January 18, 2023 Lewin Day 71 Viewsivan miranda, large scale 3d printing, lego 1 min read

[Ivan Miranda] is all about big 3D prints. He’s now set about printing giant blocks in the vein of LEGO Technic to build himself a full-sized rideable go kart. The

More Detail on That Fantastic Lego OLED Brick

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More Detail on That Fantastic Lego OLED Brick

December 20, 2022 Dan Maloney 76 Viewsbrick, lego, molding, oled, resin, silicone 1 min read

It’s always great when we get a chance to follow up on a previous project with more information, or further developments. So we’re happy that [“Ancient” James Brown] just dropped a

Building a LEGO Pneumatic Engine

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Building a LEGO Pneumatic Engine

November 17, 2022 Lewin Day 121 Viewsair engine, lego, pneumatic engine 0 min read

Pneumatic engines aren’t something we use every day, but they’re compelling things to see working in practice. [Nico71] built an eye-catching example out of LEGO Technic, and it’s remarkably fully-featured.

Blender Builds LEGO Models

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Blender Builds LEGO Models

November 15, 2022 Bryan Cockfield 132 Views3d, blender, geometry nodes, instance attributes, lego, model 1 min read

Blender is a free and open source computer graphics package that’s used in the production of everything from video games to feature films. Now, as demonstrated by [Joey Carlino], the

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October 30, 2022 Dan Maloney 127 Viewsc64, doom, earth music, fMRI, hackaday links, halloween, lego, mindstorms, regex, regular expression, sferics, solar storm 4 min read

Sad news for kids and adults alike as Lego announces the end of the Mindstorms line. The much-wish-listed line of robotics construction toys will be discontinued by the end of

Lego Plays Electronic Drums

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Lego Plays Electronic Drums

October 22, 2022 Danie Conradie 133 Viewsdrum machine, lego, rapid prototyping 1 min read

The ability to quickly try out an idea, and then expand and develop it, is what rapid prototyping is all about. Although we tend to think of 3D printing when

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Ballpoint Typewriters

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Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the LEGO Keyboard

September 15, 2022 Kristina Panos 133 Viewscyberdeck, hexagonal keycaps, keyboard, keycaps, lego, LEGO keyboard 9 min read

Well, I didn’t mean to take the whole summer off from Keebin’, it just kind of happened that way. You’d think it would have been #13 that tripped me up,

Computer-Shaped LEGO Brick Brought To Life

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Computer-Shaped LEGO Brick Brought To Life

June 8, 2022 Arya Voronova 170 Views3D printed lego, enameled wire, lego, lego computer, minaturization, miniature computer, miniaturized, oled, oled screen 1 min read

In childhood, many of us wondered — wouldn’t it be cool if our miniature toys had “real” functions? Say, that our toy cars actually were able to drive, or at

LEGO-Sorting Vacuum Defeats the Problem

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LEGO-Sorting Vacuum Defeats the Problem

March 24, 2022 Kristina Panos 177 Viewslego, LEGO sorting, shop vac, vacuum 1 min read

What’s the worst thing about LEGO? Most would agree that it’s the fact that those bright and colorful pieces of ABS are somehow the most evil thing that can come