Dissected Lego Basket Shooter Machine
Akiyuki hat vor ein paar Wochen eine Lego-Maschine gebaut, die Mini-Bälle in Körbe wirft und dabei eine fast hundertprozentige Trefferquote vorweist, hier ein Video davon. Jetzt hat er oder sie ‘nen Clip bei Youtube hochgeladen, der zeigt, wie das Teil funktioniert. Wahnsinn! 玉入れGBCモジュールの内部構造
Und ja, das kommt vom derselben Person, deren unfassbare 20-Modul-Lego-Maschine ich vor einem Jahr verbloggt hatte.
Transformers-Gameboy made from Lego
Ein Mann mit dem etwas albernen Namen Baron von Brunk baut tatsächlich einigermaßen beeindruckende Lego-Modelle, unter anderem das Super Mario 3-Luftschiff aus 8000 Steinen oder eine transformierende NES Zapper Lichtpistole. Das neueste Dings ist ein Transformers-Gameboy, inklusive einlegbaren Lego-Batterien und ebenfalls tatsächlich transformierbarem Lego-Tetris-Cartridge.
Behold: Domaster & Tetrawing — heroic Nintendobots! Transforming from Game Boy system & Tetris game to robot & bird, and back!
The name Domaster is an amalgamation of “Dot Matrix with Stereo Sound”, the blurb written above the screens of old Game Boys. The name Tetrawing was coined by New York burlesque girl Dangrr Doll (@dangrrr_doll on Twitter) who does a nerdy Tetris-themed routine with D20 Burlesque!
Lego Space Shuttle in Space
Schön: Der rumänische Student Raul Oaida hat sein Lego-Space Shuttle mit einem Wetterballon in die Stratosphäre geschickt: „The launch took place from central Germany (easy flight clearance) and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367.“
Turtle-Bot Assembly-Kit made from Lego
Tolles Teil von Pete Reid, der Mann hat ein paar Turtlebots gebaut und dazu ein Modellbau-Plastik-Halterungsdings (wie zum Geier nennt man sowas?) aus Lego gebastelt. Die dazu gehörende Turtlebot-Factory „funktioniert“ übrigens, hier ein kurzer Clip davon auf Youtube. (via Brothers Brick)
1st Lego Minecraft Set
Vorhin haben sie das erste offizielle Lego Minecraft-Set vorgestellt. Sieht genauso aus wie Lego. Oder Minecraft. Und ich mag den Micro-Creeper: Announcing LEGO Minecraft Micro World, the third LEGO CUUSOO product. (via Brothers Brick)
[update] Minecraft-Erfinder Notch spielt mit Minecraft-Lego:
Lego-Donut, Lord of the Rings, Shaun of the Dead and the Sandman
Ein leckerer Lego-Donut von Flickr-User Bruce Dowell (mehr hier und da) und wo wir grade bei Lego sind: hier ist Shaun of the Dead vor’m Winchester (mehr hier, hier und hier) und vor einer ganzen Weile hatte mir schon Xenomurphy seinen Lego-Sandman geschickt. Und dann sind noch die ersten Bilder zu Legos Lord of the Ring-Sets geleakt:
Die französische Seite Lord of the Brick hat irgendwoher Bilder von den ersten Lego-Sets zu Lord of the Rings aufgetrieben. Das sind offensichtlich Photoshop-Mockups für eine Präsentation, ich gehe aber davon aus, dass die Modelle diejenigen sind, die im Sommer am Start sein werden. Shelob und Moria sind sowas von meins. Hier die Sets:
9469 Gandalf Arrives – Gandalf & Frodo
9470 Shelob Attacks – Samwise, Frodo & Gollum
9471 Uruk-hai Army – 4 x Uruk-hai, 1 x Rohirrim Soldier, 1 x Rider Of Rohan
9472 Attack On Weathertop – Merry, Frodo, Aragon & 2 x Nazgul
9473 The Mines Of Moria – Pippin, Gimli, Legolas, Boromir, 2 x Goblins, 2 x Skeletons & Cave Troll
9474 The Battle Of Helm’s Deep – Aragon, Gimli, Legolas, Theoden, 5 x Uruk-hai
LEGO LOTR : premiers visuels préliminaires de la gamme 2012 (via Topless Robot), die anderen Bilder nach dem Klick.
Fake Commercial for the Occupy Wall Street Lego Set
Youtube Direktlego, via Actually Gee
Schönes Fake-Commercial für ein Occupy Wallstreet Lego Set.
Large Hadron Colliders Atlas built in Lego
Sascha Mehlhase vom Niels-Bohr-Institut der Uni Kopenhagen hat den Teilchendetektor ATLAS am LHC in Lego nachgebaut.
It illustrates all details, from the muon and magnet system to the innermost pixel detector and will hopefully be a great eye-catcher for all generations. Here’s some key features:
- about 9500 pieces
- roughly 1:50 in scale (close to scale with the LEGO® man)
- material cost of about 2000 Euros (payed by the high energy physics group at the Niels Bohr Institute)
- about 1 m x 0.5 m x 0.5 m in size
- approximately 33 hours construction time (spread out over several weekends and after hours)
- around 48 hours to build the 3D model (a one-timer though)
Bookmarks for Dezember 17th: 1966 Batman-Intro in Lego, International Food-Art-Incident and Saddam, Googles L-Team
Sweden Is Lending The Country’s Twitter To Citizens | Geekosystem: In a weird but awesome move, Sweden has started a campaign where its official Twitter account, @sweden, will be taken over and operated by a different Swede every week.
Occupy Goes to Washington, Finding Politics is Complicated | Threat Level | Wired.com: Even by Occupy Wall Street standards, the Washington, D.C. situation is messy and uncertain.
Artist Michael Rakowitz on How His Saddam Hussein Dinner Party Became an International Incident | Artinfo: When a dinner of venison topped with date and tahini sauce was served on plates taken from Saddam Husseins private collection at Park Avenue Autumn for Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitzs project „Spoils“, the assorted art-world diners didn’t bat an eye – but now New York Citys Iraqi mission has, turning Rakowitzs piece into an international incident. The controversy, exploding on the eve of the U.S.s supposed withdrawal from Iraq, has had reverberations touching the artist, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and president Obama himself. As Iraqi artifacts, the plates have been confiscated by the Iraqi mission after a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the restaurant, and were presented by Obama to the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team | Reuters: The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as "The OC," short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: „L Team“ short for Larry’s Team.
Parting Shot: ‘Go Freelance,’ The Board Game About Being a Comics Freelancer
What If… Herge Created The X-Men?
ARYZ x MONTANA LiSBOA | Silkscreen Print on Vimeo
The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
awesome Gmail Tips : Gmail as you have never known it before
Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs Published ~ 1982
Web Symbols typeface
StarCraft changed my life
Early sound recordings heard for first time: Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California together with digital conversion experts at the Library of Congress and curators of the work and industry division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have succeeded in playing some of the earliest experimental sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell.
Bradley Manning Had Secrets | Adam Butcher – Writer. Director. Filmmaker: The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky – YouTube: Professor Noam Chomsky presented a lecture „Changing Contours of Global Order“ a look at our drastically changing world, and the implications for domestic and world order on 4 November 2011. This was a free public lecture and was Professor Chomskys only public appearance in Melbourne, Australia.
Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU – YouTube: SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics.
Adrian Frutiger – Ein Leben – YouTube: Mit Schriften wie der Univers und der Frutiger hat sich Adrian Frutiger schon zu Lebzeiten ein Denkmal gesetzt. Seine Schriften haben den Alltag geprägt und sind zum Beispiel auf den Euro Scheinen wieder zu finden. Einer der größten Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts ist den meisten Menschen vollkommen unbekannt. Dieses Interview soll das ändern.
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0 | Webmonkey | Wired.com: Popcorn is simply a JavaScript library that aims to simplify the process of adding external data culled from around the web to your video. To give an idea of what’s possible with Popcorn, Mozilla is showcasing the movie One Millionth Tower, a documentary film about an apartment building and how residents imagine the future. One Millionth Tower premiered online last weekend at Wired.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to the Underwire blog.
One Millionth Tower uses some tricks beyond Popcorn (like WebGL for some 3D elements), but most of its coolest effects — like the way the environment in the film changes based on the real-time weather conditions and time of day at the Toronto high-rises where the documentary was filmed — are all courtesy of Popcorn.
If it happens to be snowing in Toronto when you watch the film, it will begin snowing in the virtual world of One Millionth Tower.
Official Lord of the Rings-Lego!:
Lego hat die Lizenz für Lord of the Rings (und The Hobbit) und bringt im Sommer 2012 die ersten Sets unter die Leute. Das wird teuer. Ein paar Dinge, die ich unbedingt sehen will: einen Winged Nazgûl, selbstverständlich Mordor, die Minifigs für Gollum und Gandalf, Shelob und die Ents. Hier die Pressemitteilung, ich fang schonmal an zu sparen.
Lego Minifig Anatomy Sculpture
Lego Minifig Anatomy Sculpture von Jason Freeney und wo wir schonmal bei Lego sind: Hier ein Spot zum damals neuen Toy aus den 60ern. (via Laughing Squid)
Lego Mindstorms Digital-Clock
(Youtube Direkttime, via Make)
Sehr schöne Digitaluhr von Hans Andersson aus Lego Mindstorms.
Time Twister consists of two LEGO Mindstorms bricks communicating via Bluetooth. The master brick keeps track of the time and handles the minute digits. The slave brick handles the hour digits and the second indicator. Each digit is made up of five layers with black and white tiles layed out in different patterns. Each layer can rotate 360 degrees before it hooks to the next layer. By twisting the top layer back and forth in a specific pattern, you can arrange the layers so that the desired digit is displayed.
Lego-Bully Timelapse-Build
(Youtube Direktbully, via Brothers Brick)
Marshall Matlock hat den Aufbau seines Lego Bullys in Timelapse gefilmt. Das Ding steht sowas von auf meinem Wunschzettel für Weihnachten.
Mike Doyles Abandoned Lego-Houses
Mike Doyle hat mittlerweile drei verrottende Häuser in Lego gebaut. Das erste war nett, das zweite war gut, das neueste ist der Abschuss. Das Monster da oben besteht aus mehr als 100.000 Legosteinen und er hat dafür rund 600 Stunden gebraucht.
5.5′ x 6′ x 3′
110k – 130k pieces
Black, white, dark and bluish gray, clear trans and black trans colors used.
No foreign materials (wood, glue, paint or otherwise) were used – this is pure Lego.
Photo retouching used only for adding contrast and color correction & background.
Approx 600 hours to build […]The third installment of this abandoned house series continues its textural exploration of decay with a Victorian home engulfed in mud. The mud travels through the first floor, tears down a front wall and oozes over the porch side, taking with it household contents of convenience. This detail opens the piece up, allowing the eye to travel the surface of the house and then back through the porch, into a room and back out to survey the piles of garbage. The play on depth here is something I enjoy as one has a glimpse of the activity behind this architectural scrim.
Lego: Victorian on Mud Heap (via Make)
Die anderen zwei nach dem Klick.
JP Morgan explains the Euro Crisis with Lego
Michael Cembalest, Chief Investment Officer von JPMorgans Private Banking, hat zur Illustration seines Papers über „The debt crisis in the European Monetary Union“ den wahrscheinlich einzig richtigen für diese Aufgabe rausgesucht: Seinen 9jährigen Sohn Peter. Der hat ihm das ganze Debakel in Lego Minifigs erklärt und hoffentlich auch nebenbei mal erzählt, was für einen miserablen Job Cembalest und seine Kollegen in der Finanzwelt in den letzten 20 Jahren abgeliefert haben.
To examine the various factions, I consulted Peter Cembalest, who specializes in conceptualization of such phenomena. Peter (age 9) uses Lego Minifigures as a medium, and assisted me with the diorama on the next page.
Hier die Legende für das Lego-Finanzdiagramm oben. CDU, CSU und FDP als mittelalterliche Ritter und die Finanzminister der Eurostaaten als Stormtrooper. Der Kleine wird mal ein Genie.
- The toreador in a floppy hat, and the F1 driver with his helmet, represent Spain, Italy and the rest of the Euro Periphery.
- The three men with helmets, shields, and medieval weaponry represent the CDU, CSU and FDP parties in Germany.
- The blue-and-white sailor boy is Finland. Obvs.
- The woman with an oversized carrot and her friend in overalls with a shovel represent the Social Democrats and Greens.
- Wotan represents the Bundesbank.
- The piggy bank is the IMF.
- The grey-haired Banque chap is the ECB.
- The chap in the red bib is Poland.
- The artists are France.
- The angry chef, the sweeper with a broom, the airline pilot, and the rest of the motley crew at bottom left, represent EU taxpayers in Core countries.
- The storm troopers are the EU Commission and Euro Group Finance Ministers, chaired by Jose Manuel Barroso and Jean- Claude Juncker.
- The monocled banker and his assistant are EU bondholders and shareholders.
JP Morgan explains the euro crisis with lego, Link zum PDF (via Geekdad)
