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How To : Create advanced blocks in the Lego Mindstorms NXT

Learn how to create more advanced subroutines or blocks in the Lego Mindstorms NXT programming environment that will use data hubs and other functions to perform complex tasks. Create advanced blocks in the Lego Mindstorms NXT. Click through to watch this video on ortop.org

How To : Use the Lego Mindstorms NXT Brick

The Lego Mindstorms system may seem like a toy at first, but it is actually a very powerful robotics system used by universities, schools, hobbiests, and kids alike. The NXT Brick is the basic component of the NXT system - learn how to use it to build robots and program or che ...more

How To : Make Yummy Chocolate Lego Men

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will teach you how to make Amazing Yummy Chocolate Lego figures. These little chocolate lego men are super easy to make, all you need is the chocolate and some lego molds. All you really need to do is melt the chocolate and then p ...more

How To : Make an Ozymandias from Watchmen Lego minifigure

Ozymandias, the smartest man in the world, is certainly one of the most intriguing of the many intriguing characters from the comic The Watchmen. This video features detailed instructions for making a custom Ozymandias Lego minifigure. Combine with the other Watchmen hero mini ...more

How To : Build a LEGO stroller

In this video you will learn how to build a LEGO stroller. The materials you will need are 4 of the small slanted bricks, one two by four thin brick, 3 two by 1 thick bricks, 2 one by one thin bricks, 2 one by one by four studded bricks, a small smooth brick, two odd angled sm ...more

How To : Build King Kahuka's car out of Legos

King Kahuka was a popular character in the 1999 game "Lego Racers", and he has appeared in several games since then. With his strange mask and fast moves on the track, the chief of Kahuka island is hard to forget. This short video uses stop-motion animation to show you how you ...more

News : Nathan Sawaya's LEGO Cello

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXFTFlUbmX0 Amazing LEGO Artist Nathan Sawaya shares with us his amazing LEGO Cello. More about Nathan Sawaya.

How To : Make a LEGO Menorah

This tutorial demonstrates how to make LEGO Menorah which is used for decorative purposes. First a 1/3 angle brick and a transparent red color stud dot are taken. Then three red cans are taken. Now one of the red can is fixed to one side of the angle brick, leaving the middle ...more

How To : Play with a Rubik's Cube Lego puzzle

Puzzles include multiple pieces each with a designated pattern so that when a user regroups the pieces, a picture or a particular image is presented, which provides practice to the coordination of the user's concept to space and structural relationship between pieces. However, ...more

News : Lego Mindstorms Puts the Fun Back into Number Two

Sure, unrolling toilet paper and tearing it from the roll is not difficult. But if Lego Mindstorms can do it for you, why not? "This is a project that me and my friends built for school (UCBerkeley). Its made of lego mindstorms, scissors, and some scrap metal. With all things ...more

How To : Build the lego wii "zapper"

Build the lego wii "zapper" with tips from this three part video. Part 1 of 3 - How to Build the lego wii "zapper". Part 2 of 3 - How to Build the lego wii "zapper". Part 3 of 3 - How to Build the lego wii "zapper".

How To : Create blocks in the Lego Mindstorms NXT system

If you find yourself using the same functions over and over again in the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics system it may be helpful to program your own subroutine or block to save time in making other programs. Learn how to use the my blocks function in the NXT programming environm ...more

News : Escher LEGO Style

The following Escher-esque Legos are by Andrew Lipson Here is the setup while he is building it. Here are more inspired by MC Escher Here is a mini campaign created using these images.

News : Lego Lock Picking Robot

"A major hardware update to the masterlock cracking robot. Upgraded the previously non-working latch opening mechanism to be geared down 1:25, allowing it to open the shackle. I also revamped the motor mount to be sturdier, and the base of the unit to hold the lock better and ...more

BrickLink : Your MEGA Resource For LEGO Parts

BrickLink is the Craigslist/Ebay/master aggregator of all LEGO commerce on the web. (Almost 100 million products currently for sale!) Via MAKE: "Thousands of private Lego resellers from around the world have shops there selling kits, manuals, and individual elements indexed ...more

How To : Build a fridge out of Legos

If you're building a house model, or if you're just looking for a quick and fun model to make, give the refrigerator a try! With a full swinging door, it's made to size so any minifigure will have access to it with a believable scale. In this video you will get a glimpse of ea ...more

News : If Neo Was a LEGO

This incredible brick film titled "Trinity Help" is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from The Matrix. Creators Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett: "By 'frame accurate' we mean that we took all of the video frames from that part of the movie (th ...more

News : Amazing Star Wars Sand Crawler Made of LEGO

This amazing Star Wars Sand Crawler is built entirely out of legos. Includes lighted eyes of the Jawas and a working crane to life the droids. Youtube User Marshal Banana from Switzerland created it. Here are the details: Minifigscale: 96 cm long, 100.5 cm long (lowered ma ...more

LEGO Star Wars : Bane of the Sith (trailer)

The effects in this brickfilm (or brick trailer) are awesome! I haven't watched the new Star Wars movies, so I don't know who Sith is, but I don't have to know the movies to enjoy this. In fact, I'd probably like this better anyway. Short and sweet.

News : Angry Birds Get the LEGO Treatment

Angry Birds finally hits LEGOs. It was only a matter of time before some LEGO maniac constructed Angry Birds from those popular little plastic building blocks. Stop motion brickfilms are sure to follow. Tsang Yiu Keung has constructed the entire cast of Angry Birds in LEGO, t ...more

How To : Build a howitzer out of Legos

Howitzers are a type of artillery first employed in World War 1. In this video you will learn how to make a toy howitzer out of Legos. It's easy to assemble, and it fires rubber bands! Materials needed: Assorted Lego pieces Rubber bands 1. Put two bars on the black plate, t ...more

How To : Build a LEGO sink

Building a LEGO sink is not difficult at all. You will need only 6 simple parts: 2 1x2 thins, 1 2x2 thin, one sink element (this is kind of rare so if you're not able to find it, you may have some trouble making the sink), and 2 1x1 right-angle elevated bricks. Starting with t ...more

How To : Program cascading switches in Lego Mindstorms

Programming cascading switches in the NXT programming environment allows you to program a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot to perform several if/then functions and react to inputs differently outside of a sequence. Program cascading switches in Lego Mindstorms. Click through to watch ...more

How To : Make The X-Men character Gambit out of Legos

Gambit is one of the most popular and underutilized characters in the X-Men pantheon. Now, you can show you appreciation of this iconic anti-hero by making his likeness out of Legos. This video walks you through the process of making a Lego figure look like Gambit. The only no ...more

News : Play Foosball With LEGOs

Stretta considered investing in a foosball table for his son, and ultimately decided to go the (much more fun) DIY route: a LEGO foosball table. Very nice work: Previously, Obsessively Authentic LEGO V-8. Swede Concocts Rubik's and Sudoku Brainiac LEGO-bots. 4500 Brick LEGO Po ...more

Toy Challenge : Lego Dinosaur

Check out iPhone app, LEGO Photo. It converts any photo to look like it's built from Legos. Best of all, it's free. I used a photo of a dinosaur I submitted to a previous challenge in Giveaway Tuesdays. See the original here. Taken at the Dinosaur Wall @ the Museum of Natural ...more

How To : Make The Comedian from The Watchmen in Lego

The Comedian is one of the most intriguing of the whole staff of intriguing heroes featured in the classic graphic novel The Watchmen. This video is for the many people who like both The Watchmen and Legos. It will teach you how to make a minifigure of The Comedian out of simp ...more

News : Get Your World Cup LEGO Fix Now

Via WonderHowTo World, LEGO People: ToastyKitten says: "Call it World Cup fever. Someone or someones decided to make a whole bunch of reenactments of LEGO soccer games, including the infamous US vs England draw." Two videos in the gallery below, created by Lego Fussball. Pr ...more

How To : Build a LEGO fence

With this tinkerer's tutorial, you'll learn how to assemble a fence from plastic LEGO toy blocks, a design certain to compliment most any LEGO house. For a detailed walkthrough of the assembly process, watch this free video guide.

News : Lego Seek and Destroy Tank

Ogre is a "Tank" built around a Zamor launching system nicknamed "Hailstorm". For more information, visit http://www.teamhassenplug.org/robots/...  It uses three XL PF motors, controlled either by a standard PF remote, or by the on-board (black) NXT using the Hitechnic IRLink ...more

How To : Build a LEGO Matrix bullet

This video is describing how to make a LEGO version of the Matrix bullet. The first step is gathering all of the supplies. You will need as many of the one by one transparent squares as you can find and a black one by one circular LEGO. Then put all of the white transparent pi ...more

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