Before you can vote for cool new LEGO sets, or submit your own you'll need to sign in with or register for a LEGO ID: You're currently signed in to LEGO ID as . Would you like to sign in to LEGO Ideas with this LEGO ID? LEGO Ideas is designed for older builders. We’re sorry, but based on the birth date we have on file for you, this means we can't let you have an account here. Create and Share Galleries as a place to share your models with other LEGO builders like you. Are you sure you want to log out of LEGO Ideas? Official LEGO Comments 4 The Exo Suit is my most popular model on Flickr, and has appeared in the LEGO book and LEGO MBA kit 3. Now you have the chance to own this model.Huge thanks to those good people who featured this project on their blogs.Tranquility Base, BoingBoing, Wired, The Daily What, Brick Fanatics, Gimme Lego, Brothers Brick and Daily News Agency. You people are awesome.Edit (27-7-2012) - Over half way there! Massive thanks to everyone who has supported so far!
Keep those votes coming.Dear LEGO - If this model makes it to the development stage, can I respectfully request that Mark Stafford handles the redesign? He is a good friend, and the best man to transform the Exo-Suit into an official LEGO set.Now, imagine an army of these guys.With your support the Exo Suit can be made into an official set.You can make it happen - vote now!Now with added boomsticksExo Suit41 ReviewsFIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISIdeasGo on a mission to discover the amazing Exo Suit! OK, so there isn’t a “neural handshake” or a giant sword cutting a kaiju in twain in the video above, but builder Danny Benedettelli is in fact controlling a robot using an exosuit of his own design. And it’s all made out of LEGOs. Benedettelli started the design of this tiny jaeger four years ago, dubbing it his “Cyclops” project. It runs by taking bluetooth commands sent via exosuit manipulations and putting them through Lego Mindstorms NXT hardware and an Android app Benedettelli designed himself.
He moves the suit, which transmits those movements wirelessly to Cyclops, which in turn whirls its mini motors to match. In robotics lingo, Benedettelli’s set up is known as a remote manipulator — a device controlled by a human operator via mechanical or electronic linkages. Remote manipulators have been used for decades by everything from heavy industry to radioactive science labs to NASA. So while Benedettelli isn’t exactly innovating conceptually, by making a remote manipulator out of LEGOs, he has shown that both scale and cost can easily come down. And that LEGO robotics is awesome. And other than the enormous cost, there isn’t a conceptual hurdle between scaling something like the tiny Cyclops up into a Pacific Rim-style jaeger, just bigger motors, stronger materials, and maybe a world-ending monster or five to prod Congress for funding. For more information on all his projects, including a full-sized LEGO human that can draw, head over to Benedettelli’s website.
An Italian designer has used Lego to a robot which can be wirelessly controlled with an exoskeleton;every movement Danny Benedettelli makes with his upper body, encased in the homemade exoskeleton, is replicated by a tabletop Lego-brick robot in front of him.Benedettelli, who makes custom Lego models on a freelance basis, started the project of which the Cyclops MK II build is a part in 2011. By his own estimation, the first prototype's walking ability was "poor", with plastic attachments cracking "under the weight of this beast". Like today's incarnation, it also used an Android smartphone -- fitted with a custom Cyclops app -- to help communicate instructions via Bluetooth, and was built using Lego's customisable Mindstorms NXT robotics kit. The app, NXT Chatterbox, is free and promises to "enable your NXT robot to speak and recognise speech".In 2012 Cyclops underwent another reboot, with help from a comic designer who said to Benedettelli "why don't you make it pose like a hero?" when he saw the basic design.
Which is perhaps why today we're presented with a model that looks somewhere between a Transformer and Iron Man on steroids -- or, as Benedettellicomments, "much more humanoid". "It walks and turns by shifting the NXT [onboard computer], and rotating the knees, keeping the feet parallel to ground," wrote Benedettelli. "Legs are finally straight, [no longer] chicken-like."a wearable remote control in the form of an exoskeleton," he said. "I will make a documentary video of all Cyclops features, time permitting." Finally, we have that promised video. It's under two minutes long, not really the documentary he promised, but still -- it's an exoskeleton-controlled Lego robot...Cyclops MK II connects with the exoskeleton via Bluetooth, using an Arduino board fitted to the back of the suit. The suit is covered in potentiometers, a kind of sensor, so that every movement Benedettelli makes is recorded and transmitted to Cyclops.Benedettelli is far from finished tinkering with his companion, though.
Seen as the first prototype was, albeit clunkily, walking around, it's likely the Italian designer will aim for a full body exoskeleton suit to control the robot.Sensor-covered humans controlling the movement of robots, is not all that unusual a setup. In 2010 the Korea Institute of Science and Technology showed off its biped humanoid robot, which danced whenever its human controller decided to. More practically, similar systems can be used to control robots that go into areas humans cannot, for search and rescue purposes. This is probably one of the first times Lego has been involved though, showing what can be done with a few Lego bricks and a big dream.Unikitty CloudLego UnikittyAngry UnikittyCloud CuckooCuckoo LandLego CloudShane S LegoYeah LegoGeorge S LegoForwardFriday Night Fights: In pursuit of Exo-llence | The Brothers Brick | & FREE Shipping on eligible orders. New (135) from $27.58 Sold by Sunshine Tech Groups and Fulfilled by Amazon. LEGO Ideas Exo Suit 21109
DetailsLEGO BATMAN MOVIE Mr. Freeze Ice Attack 70901 Building Kit (201 Piece) FREE Shipping on orders over . Put on your spacesuit and head out with Pete, Yves and their robot turtle on a mission to discover the long-lost Exo Suit! Selected by LEGO Ideas members (formerly known as CUUSOO), this amazing model first appeared in the unofficial book, LEGO Space, written by LEGO fan and builder, Peter Reid. Featuring possible limbs, opening cockpit, grabbing claws and an intricate, modular form that you can tune to suit the most challenging missions, this amazing Exo Suit captures the essence of Classic Space design - and for the first time in 30 years, we've kitted Pete and Yves out in green spacesuits with the Classic Space logo! This set also includes building instructions and a fun booklet containing a cool space-themed story featuring the models and from the set, plus information about the creator. Includes 2 astronaut . 10.3 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)