some people are reeeeeally bored

rofl why not just put the box of lego next to you rofl.

that is awesome.

i dont get this.. is it just like a pointless lego calculator?

omg thread saved!

I thought the OP was impressive. It's a computer made with LEGO. It seems like technology that could have been around for ever, but really transistors and such were invented before LEGO.

I take your pathetic weapons and raise a you lego car factory made out of lego!

Hah ^ that would've taken ages

that factory is f***ing sick

It's so inefficient... the factory and the ALU thing.... if the rubber band gun guy made an equally inefficient contraption, it would shoot 1 rubber band, slowly rotate around one whole revolution, then fire another... that's what seperates him from the pack

holy s***. factory takes the cake

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/arvo/Legodreams/Alien/alien_01.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/arvo/Legodreams/AlienSculpture/alien_04.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/arvo/Legodreams/ironman.jpg

Huh? You can't design something, chop it up into lego block, and reassemble it... NEXT!

That factory is pretty cool but they fail.

You go to all that trouble and then to show it off to the world you make a s*** video.

Some pretty smart dudes...with no jobs maybe :p

Interesting thread. I thought I'd mention a few things to clear it up. First, I'm the guy who put together the video (& the LEGO) of the DigiComp II. Yes, I have a job (PhD in physics, teaching, also parent of three), no I don't have a lot of free time (I just use it differently), and I'm not terribly bored. But I do like building robots and interesting mechanisms out of LEGO. The idea of the LEGO DCII was to replicate in LEGO something I couldn't lay hands on elsewhere - even a broken DigiComp II goes for a couple hundred US dollars on eBay, and they are rare even at that price. So if I wanted to figure out how it worked, I needed to build it myself. Turns out I'm not the only one interested, as I've already had one commission (a museum asked me to build them a copy, which they paid for... not bad, turning your hobby into cash). I also work with the LEGO group directly on their new MINDSTORMS NXT (yes, it's suppossed to be all caps :) ), working out the bugs in the prototypes etc. Not bad, again, when your hobby ends up attracting enough attention that the manufacturer starts taking notice and asking your advice (a lot of fun too).

Is it practical? Absolutely not. Then again, the number of times in real life that I have to control a Lombax is sort of small as well - another rather impractical skill. An awful lot of what humans do for entertainment is amazingly unpractical... but fun. So chalk it up to me having fun doing something in an impractical way (hey, I also like rock climbing... even though there are a lot easier ways to get to the top of most rocks).

As to the LEGO factory, that person actually did a great job on the video - it was put together by a bunch of students and videoed once by the teacher for the students and class alone - he had no idea it would get noticed, and was shocked that it got all the views it did. He wanted to make a better video when he discovered this, but the factory had been taken apart about a year prior to that, so he had no way to recreate it.

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Brian Davis

Might want to have wanted a bit more table room so the made car doesn't roll off & smash onto the ground :)



last edited by The GuVna at 02:06:37 20/Mar/08

holy s***, i want the chest burster and iron man.