Ah, 1980s space Lego sets. You may think the pirate ship and castle sets are cooler, but you’re wrong, because spaceship. These space Lego sets had some very interesting parts, with tiny two-by sloped pieces printed with Lego analogs of computers, monitors, phones, intercoms, speakers, control panels, and everything else that makes a voxellated spaceship fly to the moon. Now, these pieces are functional, and they’re nearly life-size. [Love Hultén] took these fantastic parts, modeled them, and scaled them up to six times normal Lego dimensions. These blocks were then fitted with buttons, displays, the guts of an old telephone, and all the other accoutrements to make these bricks functional. Two computer blocks can be connected together, and it will play video games with a Lego-shaped controller. The intercom works, and the buttons on control panels can be used to turn on lights. It should be noted the Lego family is more than just the small bricks that really hurt when you step on them.
Duplo, the blocks made for children who would stuff Lego down their own throats, is twice the size of Lego. Quatro are blocks made for toddlers, and are twice the size of Duplo and four times the size of Lego. Since [Love] made blocks that are six times the size of normal Lego blocks, we’ll leave it up to the comments to determine what this class of blocks should be named.Rejoice, for the first fully functional, 1:1 scale R2-D2 is at last a reality. As amazing as this video of Darth Lily—the cutest girl in the galaxy—hugging him.L3-G0, as it is called, started as a CAD project in August 2013, when Shawn and Lara Steele decided that it was time for the world to have a fully functioning astromech—minus the hyperspace jump calculations and other little things—in Lego form. 16,000 bricks and almost one year later, they finished it with the help of Nikita Steele, Laurel Lee Steele and Hosik Lee. It was first seen wandering the Emerald City Comicon 2014 last week. Check out the stats: The droid is not 100% Lego.
It uses a frame to support the Lego structure and provide with motion using an electric motor controlled by two Arduinos, which are controlled by a Microsoft Surface Pro. Check out this video of its frame in action.A time-lapse of the last stretch of the building process:Here are some photos of the building process and some of its parts: The project was not an easy one. During tests, this is what happened when the head accidentally spun too fast:the life-size forest installation by LEGO broken hill, NSW, australia images courtesy of LEGO LEGO is celebrating 50 years in australia with an array of installations across the country, with the most recent set up in the rural town of broken hill, new south wales. residents of the outback locale were surprised to wake up to a life-size forest made up of 15 four-meter high pine trees and flower sets recreated to a 1:1 ratio of the original pieces, and then supersized to be 66 times bigger. the enormous toys speckle the living desert, contrasting red dust plains and blue skies as a part of the brand’s ‘festival of play’.
15 sets of large-scale LEGO flowers dotted the outback landscape the installation surprised the locals of broken hill, NSW the LEGO trees scaled 4 meters high the installation is to celebrate 50 years of the brand being in australia the landscape at sunset LEGO gives lift-off to fan-designed set honoring the women » this handmade LEGO robot folds and launches paper planes to » BMW and LEGO present the hover bike concept LEGO gives lift-off to fan-designed set honoring the women of NASA this handmade LEGO robot folds and launches paper planes to perfection BMW and LEGO present the hover bike conceptSee The LEGO® Batmobile in action Get More of The LEGO® Batman Movie in Your Life Think You Can Do Better?Bring out the kid in even the most serious design snob with this clever and fun DIY lego furniture! There’s no need to tediously stack thousands of Lego bricks together to construct these cushy and colorful masterpieces!
Giant in size, these Lego-like Lunasoft LunaBlocks are made of expanded polypropylene, and they’re specially designed to be easily stackable, allowing DIYers to build (and reconfigure) an endless array of furniture options. The bricks are available in three sizes/materials, featuring either 2, 4, or 8 pegs, and in colors: white, black, granite, pink, green, yellow and orange — there’s a design option for every fan of playful home decor. Created by Thierry Nahon and Philippe Landecker of Lunatic Construction, these brightly colored bricks may be arranged into playful, eye-catching furniture that is as unique as your imagination. From an inviting sofa and sweet stools, to an awesome dining room table and chairs, sleek shelving unit or leggy coffee table, LunaBlocks Lego-ish bricks are sure to delight children and the kid in all of us. Feeling inspired by toy-like furniture & decor? Check out our previous coverage of a musical xylophone coffee table, LED Gummi Bear lamps, enormous Tetris blocks turned furniture, a chair comprised solely of toy blocks, and a chair made from an old playground slide!
+ Lunasoft LunaBlocks 18,00 € per brick A LEGO fan has brought the toys to life around the ancient streets and landmarks of Rome Scroll down for exclusive words and pictures A Lego Pneumatic Front-End Loader parked at Piazza dell’Esquilino Italian architect and part-time photographer, Domenico Franco has cleverly placed the seemingly life-sized cars in front of historical sites such as the Colosseum, Trajan’s Forum and Via Giulia. But the images aren’t all that they seem, as they are part of Domenico's latest project where he constructed the fantasy scenes by building the tiny Lego cars and digitally placing them onto separately shot pictures of iconic locations around Italy’s capital city. Domenico, 46, said: “This project is not meant to convey a social denunciation, it is rather meant to throw a glance across the contemporary city with irony and disillusion on the contemporary Rome.” Starting in 2014, Franco created his images using 3D Software - Blender and Adobe Photoshop - to place the colourful Lego vehicles within images of the city.
A Lego Lamborghini Gallardo appears to be parked amongst other cars in a suburban neighbourhood He said: “The process is quite difficult, generally the first step is to imagine what vehicle I would like to use, then I wander through Rome riding my bike and with my camera to find a good location. “With the help of 3D software Blender, I then get the point of view and draw a grid in the same perspective where I want to place the model. I then print this grid onto transparent film and apply it on the LCD of my camera and, with a lot of patience, I set the camera the model and the lights and shoot. "The last part of the work is created in Adobe Photoshop where I import the two images into separate layers and so on.” Franco created his images using 3D Software - Blender and Adobe Photoshop Domenico’s finished pictures see a Lego helicopter touching down in front of the iconic Colosseum, a Lego train moving through the busy Porta Maggiore intersection and a truck rolling out a Lego Formula 1 Race Car.
Domenico said: “The most difficult one of the series was definitely the train - it was hard work to study and reproduce the sun light, direct shadows on the ground and the reflections on the bricks.” Domenico also builds each of the Lego vehicles himself and says it is the most enjoyable part of the process Franco also builds each of the Lego vehicles himself and says it is the most enjoyable part of the process. He said: “As an adult fan of Lego, the building process is the most fun thing as I am able to share this joy with my family. A truck appears to be rolling out a Lego Formula 1 Race Car at Via Statilia “All the models shown in the project are genuine Lego sets that belong to my collection or from the rooms of my children.” And for the Italian-born photographer he still loves to trick viewers into thinking the vehicles were really placed around the ancient city. Domenico creates the scenes by digitally placing images of Lego vehicles within photos of the city